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Author : Amtrak Reform Council (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UCBK:C100872235
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Railroads
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : PSU:000049664751
Author : Richard R. Nelson
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781610444248
The last quarter century has seen a broad, but qualified, belief in the efficacy of market organization slide into an unyielding dogma that the market, as unconstrained as possible, is the best way to govern virtually all economic activity. However, unrestricted markets can often lead to gross inequalities in access to important resources, the creation of monopolies, and other negative effects that require regulation or public subsidies to remedy. In The Limits of Market Organization, editor Richard Nelson and a group of economic experts take a more sophisticated look at the public/private debate, noting where markets are useful, where they can be effective only if augmented by non-market mechanisms, and where they are simply inappropriate. The Limits of Market Organization examines the appropriateness of markets in four areas where support for privatization varies widely: human services, public utilities, science and technology, and activities where market involvement is altogether inappropriate. Richard Murnane makes the case that a social interest in providing equal access to high quality education means that for school voucher plans to be effective, substantial government oversight is necessary. Federal involvement in a transcontinental railroad system was initially applauded, but recent financial troubles at Amtrak have prompted many to call for privatization of the rails. Yet contributor Elliot Sclar argues that public subsidies are the only way to maintain this vital part of the American transportation infrastructure. While market principles can promote competition and foster innovation, applying them in certain areas can actually stifle progress. Nelson argues that aggressive patenting has hindered scientific research by restricting access to tools and processes that could be used to generate new findings. He suggests that some kind of exception to patent law should be made for scientists who seek to build off of patented findings and then put their research results into the public domain. In other spheres, market organization is altogether unsuitable. Legal expert Richard Briffault looks at one such example—the democratic political process—and profiles the successes and failures of campaign finance reform in preventing parties from buying political influence. This important volume shows that market organization has its virtues, but also its drawbacks. Just as regulation can be over-applied, so too can market principles. The Limits of Market Organization encourages readers to think more discriminately about the march toward privatization, and to remember the importance of public institutions.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428941953
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : High speed ground transportation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050378863
Author : Robert J. Dilger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313013331
The author maintains that American politics, institutional arrangements, and political culture have prevented the development of a comprehensive, integrated, intermodal transportation policy in the United States. Dilger makes his argument by examining the development of the national governmental authority in both surface and air transportation. Each transportation mode—highways/mass transit, Amtrak, and civilian air transportation—is examined separately, assessing their development over time and focusing on current controversies, including, but not limited to, the highway versus mass transit funding issue; the recent decentralization of decision making authority on surface transportation policy; Amtrak's viability as an alternative to the automobile; and current antiterrorist policies' effect on transportation policy.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Government publications
ISBN : OSU:32435070558440
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Budget
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Budget
ISBN : PSU:000049658316
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Budget
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PURD:32754074674171
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Railroads
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Railroads
ISBN : LOC:00130904129
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Railroads
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000049670776
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Dept. of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1134 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : United States
ISBN : MINN:31951D02106741W
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1144 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050269195
Author : Diana L. Moss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135994228
The rapid growth of network industries has generated much comment amongst academics and policy makers. This timely volume takes an interdisciplinary, case study-based approach to examining network issues and experiences in order to develop recommendations that can inform antitrust, regulatory and legislative policy. Legal, economic, political and institutional aspects of network access are analyzed. The first part of the volume focuses on five topics that are central to reasoned analysis of the access problem. The second part presents ten case studies of network access in the energy, transportation, telecommunications, internet and banking industries. The volume concludes with comparisons and contrasts across the cases and policy recommendations. Network Access, Regulation and Antitrust will prove invaluable to students of business, economics, law and economics and industrial economics, policy makers and academics working in the field.
Author : Joseph Vranich
Publisher : A E I Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114173722
This insightful book exposes how Amtrak--which is seeking record federal subsidies while continuing to resist meaningful reforms--is not as essential to mobility as it claims.
