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  • First Thing We Do, Let’s Deregulate All the Lawyers
    Clifford Winston / Robert W. Crandall / Vikram Maheshri
    'Not many Americans think of the legal profession as a monopoly, but it is. Abraham Lincoln, who practiced law for nearly twenty-five years, would likely not have been allowed to practice today. Without a law degree from an American Bar Association–sanctioned institution, a would-be lawyer is allowed to practice law in only a few states. ABA regulations also prevent even l...
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    34,84 €

  • Competition and Chaos
    Robert W. Crandall
    'The 1996 Telecommunications Act was an attempt to increase competition among telecommunications providers in the United States by reducing regulatory barriers to market entry. This competition was expected to drive innovation in the telecommunications sector and reap economic benefits for both American consumers and telecommunications providers. The legislation, however, had a...
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  • Who Pays for Universal Service?
    Leonard Waverman / Robert W. Crandall
    'In virtually every country, the price of residential access to the telephone network is kept low and cross-subsidized by business services, long distance calling, and various other telephone services. This pricing practice is widely defended as necessary to promote ''universal service,'' but Crandall and Waverman show that it has little effect on telephone subscriptions while ...
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  • Cable TV
    Harold Furchtgott-Roth / Robert W. Crandall
    'In 1984, Congress simultaneously eliminated state-local regulation of cable television rates and banned telephone companies from offering cable service in their own franchise areas. Five years later, the General Accounting Office discovered that basic cable rates had risen more than four times as rapidly as the overall consumer price level since rate deregulation. As a result,...
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    31,99 €

  • Talk is Cheap
    Leonard Waverman / Robert W. Crandall
    'The rapid pace of technological change is placing the world's telephone companies in a very difficult position. Fiber optics cables, wireless telephones, digital signal compression, and sophisticated new switching equipment are lowering the cost of providing service and opening the gates to new competition. At the same time, these new technologies are providing the teleph...
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  • Extra Mile
    Pietro S. Nivola / Robert W. Crandall
    'In the United States, proposals for gasoline tax hikes have consistently met with broad-based congressional opposition. Although such taxes are a common and effective method of conserving energy in other industrialized nations, U.S. policy has traditionally relied on regulatory programs rather than fuel taxes to promote energy efficiency in automotive transportation. This book...
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  • After the Breakup
    Robert W. Crandall
    'The U.S. telecommunications industry has undergone dramatic changes in recent years that have touched almost every American home and business. The average American can dial almost anywhere in the world directly, store and forward a message, or transmit a fax in less than a minute; often for less than the real cost of a 500-mile telephone call tweny-five years ago. The combinat...
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    31,94 €