Format:
1 online resource (163 pages)
Edition:
Second edition
ISBN:
9780228012450
Series Statement:
Carleton Library Ser.
Content:
Using the transaction-cost literature pioneered by Oliver Williamson, John Baldwin examines contractual failure in Canada in natural monopoly cases, asking why initial forms of contracts between the state and private enterprise failed, and why this failure so often resulted in the use of public enterprise rather than regulatory tribunals.
Content:
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword to the New Edition -- Introduction to the New Edition -- Preface -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Theory of Natural Monopoly Regulation -- Natural Monopoly and the Need for a Regulatory Agent -- The Cause of Transactions Failures -- Transactions Failure and Regulation -- Conclusion -- 3 The Transition from Franchise Contract to Regulatory Tribunal in the United States -- The Emergence of the Utility Sector -- The Early Evolution of the Regulatory System -- Regulation as a Contract -- Flexible Regulatory Contracts -- Property Rights and the Role of the Judiciary -- Conclusion -- 4 Public Enterprise in the Canadian Railway Industry -- The Conventional View -- The Contractual Process and Transactions Failure -- Moral Hazard and Regulatory Failure -- The Demise of the Grank Trunk -- Confiscation During the Expropriation Process -- Conclusion -- 5 Judicial Constraints in Canada and the Evolution of the Regulatory Process -- The Role of the Judiciary in Canada -- Common Law and Confiscation -- The Evolution of Rulings on Regulation and Confiscation -- The Evolution of Regulation via Independent Tribunal -- Nova Scotia -- New Brunswick -- Alberta -- Conclusion -- 6 The Evolution of the Regulatory Contract in the Nineteenth Century -- Water and Municipalization -- Voluntary Regulation in the Gas Industry -- Tramways and Regulation by Contract -- Conclusion -- 7 British Columbia: Honour and Circumstance -- Regulation by Independent Tribunal Avoided -- Historical Development (1896-1917) -- Renegotiation of the Regulatory Contract -- Conclusion -- 8 Bell Canada: Business Strategy and Federal Protection -- Historical Development -- Conclusion -- 9 Manitoba: Public Enterprise Accompanied by Regulation -- The Expropriation of Bell Canada's Manitoba Operations.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780228011828
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Baldwin, John R., 1945 - Regulatory failure and renewal Montreal : McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022 ISBN 0228011817
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780228011811
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0228011825
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780228011828
Language:
English
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