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The Failure of Judges and the Rise of Regulators

Shleifer, Andrei - The MIT Press

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 …

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Beyond Our Control?: Confronting the Limits of Our Legal System in the Age of Cyberspace

Biegel, Stuart - The MIT Press

executives and many musicians, as well as a range of much-discussed legal action. Regulation strategies identified and discussed … ordering, and self-regulation. The book also applies major regulatory models to some of the most volatile Internet issues …

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Energy: Markets and Regulation, Essays in Honor of M.A. Adelman

Gordon, Richard L. (contributor); … - The MIT Press

Energy: Markets and Regulation is a valuable survey of current thinking on energy economics, focusing on the regulation …

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Birth of a Market: The U.S. Treasury Securities Market from the Great War to the Great Depression

Garbade, Kenneth D. - The MIT Press

The market for U.S. Treasury securities is a marvel of modern finance. In 2009 the Treasury auctioned $8.2 trillion of new securities, ranging from 4-day bills to 30-year bonds, in 283 offerings on 171 different days. By contrast, in the decade before World War I, there was only about $1 billion...

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The Prosperity of Vice: A Worried View of Economics

Cohen, Daniel - The MIT Press

What happened yesterday in the West is today being repeated on a global scale. Industrial society is replacing rural society: millions of peasants in China, India, and elsewhere are leaving the countryside and going to the city. New powers are emerging and rivalries are exacerbated as...

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The Economics of Collusion: Cartels and Bidding Rings

Marhsall, Robert C.; Marx, Leslie M. - The MIT Press

Explicit collusion is an agreement among competitors to suppress rivalry that relies on interfirm communication and/or transfers. Rivalry between competitors erodes profits; the suppression of rivalry through collusion is one avenue by which firms can enhance profits. Many cartels and bidding...

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Political Economy of Fairness

Zajac, Edward E. - The MIT Press

fairness. Part III covers economic theories of regulation and government intervention, introducing the different concepts of … incentive-compatible regulation appears to economists as the most promising approach to government intervention. The book closes … with several case studies that illustrate recurrent themes in regulation and policy. The case studies include progressive …

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Digital Phoenix: Why the Information Economy Collapsed and How It Will Rise Again

Abramson, Bruce - The MIT Press

While we were waiting for the Internet to make us rich—back when we thought all we had to do was to buy lottery tickets called dotcom shares—we missed the real story of the information economy. That story, says Bruce Abramson in Digital Phoenix, took place at the intersection of technology,...

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Intellectual Property Strategy

Palfrey, John - The MIT Press

Most managers leave intellectual property issues to the legal department, unaware that an organization’s intellectual property can help accomplish a range of management goals, from accessing new markets to improving existing products to generating new revenue streams. In this book,...

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Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology Is Reshaping the Economy

Brynjolfsson, Erik - The MIT Press

A wave of business innovation is driving the productivity resurgence in the U.S. economy. In Wired for Innovation, Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders describe how information technology directly or indirectly created this productivity explosion, reversing decades of slow growth. They argue that...

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