Government intervention or free competition? Based on articles written from the perspective of law, economics, the history of law and the history of economics, the authors of this volume deal with the question of how much market and how much regulation are necessary in the telecommunications...

Using case studies and studies of problems as examples, the authors of this volume show how legal reforms created the basis for industrialization and influenced its structure. In doing so, they examine the close connection between economic and legal history during this time. (Published in German.)