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The Causes and Effects of Deregulation

Product Description: Beginning with railroad regulation in 1887 and continuing for eight decades, the U.S. Federal Government expanded its regulatory scope to cover key transportation, telecommunications and energy sectors. In the last quarter of the 20th century this long-term trend was abruptly and dramatically reversed as important sectors of the U...read more

By Paul W. MacAvoy (editor) and Richard Schmalensee (editor)

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9781781006924 | Edward Elgar Pub, May 31, 2014, cover price $770.00 | About this edition: Beginning with railroad regulation in 1887 and continuing for eight decades, the U.

Explaining Metals Prices: Economic Analysis of Metals Markets in the 1980s and 1990s

Product Description: Work on this book began in the Spring of 1983, not longÂ after an Amax Corporation annual budget meeting. As a member of the Amax board of directors since 1979, I had been present at such meetings in which the molybdenum price had been forecast to move higher than $7...read more

By Paul W. MacAvoy

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9789401077125 | Springer Verlag, October 5, 2011, cover price $159.00 | About this edition: Work on this book began in the Spring of 1983, not longÂ after an Amax Corporation annual budget meeting.

The Unsustainable Costs of Partial Deregulation

Product Description: Three decades ago, federal policymakers―Republicans and Democrats―embarked on a general strategy of deregulation. In the electricity, gas delivery, and telecommunications industries, the strategy called for restructuring to separate production from transmission and distribution, followed by elimination of price controls...read more

By Paul W. MacAvoy

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9780300121285 | Yale Univ Pr, July 28, 2007, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Three decades ago, federal policymakers―Republicans and Democrats―embarked on a general strategy of deregulation.

Corporate Profit And Nuclear Safety: Strategy At Northeast Utilities In The 1990s

Product Description: Northeast Utilities Company adopted an ambitious new competitive strategy in the mid-1980s, seeking to become the low-cost supplier in New England electric power markets bracing for deregulation. Given its high-cost nuclear facilities, doing so required a corporate turnaround...read more

By Paul W. MacAvoy and Jean W. Rosenthal

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9780691119946 | Princeton Univ Pr, October 25, 2004, cover price $69.00 | About this edition: Northeast Utilities Company adopted an ambitious new competitive strategy in the mid-1980s, seeking to become the low-cost supplier in New England electric power markets bracing for deregulation.

The Recurrent Crisis in Corporate Governance

Product Description: Named one of the 2003 books of the year in the Economist: "A convincing explanation of why, despite all of the recent reforms in American corporate governance, there will probably be more firms that go the way of Enron." In the last thirty years, there has been a gradual erosion in the abilities and responsibilities of corporate boards...read more

By Paul W. MacAvoy and Ira M. Millstein

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9781403916662 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 17, 2004, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: Since the mid-1980s two crises have overtaken governance of the American corporation - the loss of competitiveness in the 1980s and the loss of investor trust in financial management in the late 1990s.

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9780804750868 | Stanford Univ Pr, August 18, 2004, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Named one of the 2003 books of the year in the Economist: "A convincing explanation of why, despite all of the recent reforms in American corporate governance, there will probably be more firms that go the way of Enron.

The Natural Gas Market: Sixty Years of Regulation and Deregulation

Product Description: Over the past six decades federal regulatory agencies have attempted different strategies to regulate the natural gas industry in the United States. All have been unsuccessful, resulting in nationwide gas shortages or massive gas surpluses and costing the nation scores of billions of dollars...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Paul W. MacAvoy

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9780300083811 | Yale Univ Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Over the past six decades federal regulatory agencies have attempted different strategies to regulate the natural gas industry in the United States.

Deregulation and Privatization in the United States

Product Description: This is an issue of our quarterly journal Hume Papers on Public Policy--the journal of the David Hume Institute.

By David Hume (corporate author) and Paul W. MacAvoy (editor)

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9780748607389 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, June 1, 1996, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: This is an issue of our quarterly journal Hume Papers on Public Policy--the journal of the David Hume Institute.

Industry Regulation and the Performance of the American Economy

An assessment of regulation and its impact on the economy begins with the Act to Regulate Commerce of 1887 and traces the rise of regulation over one hundred years, closely examining its sharp curtailment in the 1980s.

By Paul W. MacAvoy

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9780393033540 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1992, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An assessment of regulation and its impact on the economy begins with the Act to Regulate Commerce of 1887 and traces the rise of regulation over one hundred years, closely examining its sharp curtailment in the 1980s

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9780393961867 | W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 1992, cover price $22.25 | About this edition: An assessment of regulation and its impact on the economy begins with the Act to Regulate Commerce of 1887 and traces the rise of regulation over one hundred years, closely examining its sharp curtailment in the 1980s

Privatization and State Owned Enterprise: Lessons from the United States, Great Britain, and Canada

Product Description: The book is divided into three major sections. The first presents a theoretical discussion that underlies the other essays. The second section deals with privatization issues from the perspective of the United States. The third describes research addressed to the U...read more

By Paul W. MacAvoy (editor), W. T. Stanbury, George Yarrow and Richard J. Zeckhauser

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9780898382976 | Kluwer Academic Pub, January 1, 1989, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: The book is divided into three major sections.

Explaining Metals Prices: Economic Dynamics of Metals Markets in the 1980's and 1990's

By Paul W. MacAvoy

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9780898382938 | Kluwer Academic Pub, November 1, 1988, cover price $179.00 | About this edition: Work on this book began in the Spring of 1983, not longÂ after an Amax Corporation annual budget meeting.

Energy Policy: An Economic Analysis

Analyzes United States energy policy and regulations, assesses their impact on the economy, and recommends reforms and revisions

By Paul W. MacAvoy

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9780393017236 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 1983, cover price $17.50 | About this edition: Analyzes United States energy policy and regulations, assesses their impact on the economy, and recommends reforms and revisions

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9780393953213 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 1983, cover price $14.80 | About this edition: Analyzes United States energy policy and regulations, assesses their impact on the economy, and recommends reforms and revisions

The Regulated Industries

An authority on regulation who has served on the Council of Economic Advisers calls attention to the explosive growth in regulation since the late 1960s and its effects and examines movements for reform and deregulation

By Paul W. MacAvoy

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9780393012804 | W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1, 1979, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: An authority on regulation who has served on the Council of Economic Advisers calls attention to the explosive growth in regulation since the late 1960s and its effects and examines movements for reform and deregulation

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9780393950946 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1979, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: An authority on regulation who has served on the Council of Economic Advisers calls attention to the explosive growth in regulation since the late 1960s and its effects and examines movements for reform and deregulation

Economic Strategy for Developing Nuclear Breeder Reactor

By Paul W. MacAvoy

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9780262130547 | Mit Pr, August 15, 1969, cover price $32.50

The Economic Effects of Regulation: The Trunk-line Railroad Cartels and the Interstate Commerce Commission Before 1900

By Paul W. MacAvoy

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9780262130226 | Mit Pr, December 15, 1965, cover price $16.00

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