The half-life of policy rationales : how new technology affects old policy issues / edited by Fred E. Foldvary and Daniel B. Klein.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: New York : New York University Press, 2003.Description: ix, 276 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0814747760 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0814747779 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HC 110.T4 H35 2003
Contents:
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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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection HC 110 .T4 H35 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98630289

"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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