Regulatory Failure and Renewal

Language: English

Published by McGill-Queen's University Press, CA, 2022

0228011817 / 9780228011811

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Regulatory Failure and Renewal develops a framework to understand the choice of regulatory instrument used in Canada for natural monopolies such as telephone companies, water utilities, streetcars, hydroelectricity, and railways from the 1880s to the 1930s. Using the transaction-cost literature pioneered by Oliver Williamson, John Baldwin examines the nature of 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. Baldwin outlines early attempts to deal with natural monopolies - from the use of a franchise contract to regulatory tribunals and finally to public enterprise - and compares Canadian experiences to US approaches, which turned more frequently to regulatory tribunals. This difference is due to Canada's more limited constraints on the state's ability to exercise coercive power, which sometimes leads to contractual failure that results in replacing franchise and regulatory frameworks with public enterprise. Regulatory Failure and Renewal demonstrates that public enterprise arose not so much as part of a purposive choice but because of reoccurring failures in the contractual process between the Canadian state and private enterprise.

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Title
Regulatory Failure and Renewal
Author
John R. Baldwin
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press, CA
Publication year
2022
Condition
New
Binding
Hardback
Language
English
ISBN 10
0228011817
ISBN 13
9780228011811
Edition
Second edition.
Item weight
567 grams
Dimensions
20.64 x 1.52 x 26.67 cm

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