business, economics, and regulation through the eyes of Sam Gordon and Laura Silver, teachers at the exclusive Edwards School … in Washington, D.C. Sam lives and breathes capitalism. He thinks that most government regulation is unnecessary or even …

. Alternatively, private ownership and consumers' political power can be reconciled through regulation. Either way, network utilities …. Network utilities pose special problems of ownership and regulation. He discusses the history of ownership and regulation …, privatization, and theories of regulation. Examining three network utilities in detail—telecoms, electricity, and gas—he contrasts …

Government regulation is ubiquitous today in rich and middle-income countries--present in areas that range from … rather uncommon. In this book, Andrei Shleifer argues that the ubiquity of regulation can be explained not so much by the … alternative has taken throughout the world is regulation. The Failure of Judges and the Rise of Regulators gathers Shleifer …

the central bank, increased regulation can constrain the adverse consequences of ill-informed decisions. Instead, there …, inadequate and poor-quality data, and declining regulation. Following his accessible narrative of the deep causes of the crisis …

levels of debt? These top economists discuss future directions for monetary policy, fiscal policy, financial regulation … regulation; the need for new theoretical approaches, incorporating advances in agency theory, behavioral economics, and …

the central bank, increased regulation can constrain the adverse consequences of ill-informed decisions. Instead, there …, inadequate and poor-quality data, and declining regulation. Following his accessible narrative of the deep causes of the crisis …

and applied them consistently? In the debate over regulation, for example, Baker—one of the few economists who predicted …

increasing returns may play the role of symmetric obstacles to Pareto optimality. Essays in the third part range from regulation …

Regulation and Markets provides the up to date, integrated analysis of regulatory policies and the administrative … process that is needed in today's field of regulation economics. The book takes a modern perspective, using the tools of … consideration of public policy issues in the areas of antitrust, price regulation, environmental regulation, product quality, and …

regulation. Each chapter ends with a detailed problem set and solutions. …