This handbook provides a discussion the major trends and issues in regulation over the last 30 years, together with an outline of prospective developments. Each chapter offers a broad overview of key current issues and provides an analysis of different perspectives on those issues.

This book aims to define comparative economics and to illustrate the breadth and depth of its contribution. It starts with an historiography of the field, arguing for a continued legacy of comparative economic systems, which compared socialism and capitalism, a field which some argued should...