TY  - BOOK
AU  - Foldvary,Fred E.
AU  - Klein,Daniel B.
TI  - The half-life of policy rationales: how new technology affects old policy issues 
SN  - 0814747760 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - HC 110.T4 H35 2003
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Government policy
KW  - United States
KW  - Free enterprise
N1  - "A Cato Institute book."; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; Half-life of policy rationales: how new technology affects old policy issues; Fred E. Foldvary; Daniel B. Klein --; PART I. METERING, EXCLUDING, AND CHARGING --; Technology, marine conservation, and fisheries management; Michael De Alessi --; Lighthouse as a private-sector collective good; Fred E. Foldvary --; Motorway financing and provision: technology favors a new approach; Peter Samuel --; Buying time at the curb; Donald C. Shoup --; Fencing the airshed: using remote sensing to police auto emissions; Daniel B. Klein --; PART II. QUALITY ASSURANCE AND CONSUMER PROTECTION --; Technology and the case for free banking; David Friedman; Kerry Macintosh --; Consumer protection regulation and information on the Internet; John C. Moorhouse --; Medical licensing: existing public policy and technological change; Shirley V. Svorny --; PART III. NATURAL MONOPOLY? --; Technology and electricity: overcoming the umbilical mentality; Alvin Lowi Jr; Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. --; Avoiding the grid: technology and the decentralization of water; Alvin Lowi Jr. --; Technological change and the case for government intervention in postal services; Rick Geddes --; PART IV. OTHER ARES OF POLICY --; Entrepreneurial community in light of advancing business practices and technologies; Spencer Heath MacCallum --; Technology and the protection of endangered species; Richard L. Stroup; Jane S. Shaw
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