This volume shows that the public policy concerns are not accidental, because such industries often embody two major and widely recognized forms of potential market failure.

This volume explains why there is bipartisan interest in privatization of public housing and how it can be accomplished.

This book identifies the major sources of competition to the cable television industry, such as telephone companies, direct broadcast satellite services, and traditional broadcasting stations.

The authors demonstrate how regulation intended to control costs can exacerbate cost growth by subsidizing high-risk activities and firms at the expense of low-risk activities and firms.

This book argues for greater national uniformity in state and local taxes that affect interstate commerce.

This book examines America's economy over the past several decades and the sources of our recent success and comes to surprising conclusions about what we can learn from it.

Key economists for the government and for the Microsoft Corporation lay out their views on the key issues and then respond to the views presented by the opposing side.

Six articles contribute to the attention on the U.S. Postal Service in response to advances in telecommunications and communications and new thinking about regulated industries.

The author critically evaluates the logic behind industrial targeting and explains why these policies fail simple cost-benefit tests.