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1 online resource (ix, 276 pages) |
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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 |
| Summary |
The Half-Life of Policy Rationales argues that the appropriateness of policy depends on the state of technology, and that the justifications for many public policies are dissolving as technology advances. As new detection and metering technologies are being developed for highways, parking, and auto emissions, and information becomes more accessible and user-friendly, this volume argues that quality and safety are better handled by the private sector. As for public utilities, new means of producing and delivering electricity, water, postal, and telephone services dissolve the old natural-monopo |
| Notes |
"A Cato Institute book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Technological innovations -- Government policy -- United States
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Free enterprise -- United States
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Technological innovations -- Government policy
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Free enterprise.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
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Free enterprise
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Technological innovations -- Government policy
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Technische vernieuwing.
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Technologiebeleid.
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United States
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Foldvary, Fred E., 1946-
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Klein, Daniel B
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| ISBN |
9780814729243 |
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081472924X |
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