This book explains and tells the stories of how four major firms--American Airlines, El Paso Natural Gas, AT & T, and Bank America--and their respective managements were challenged by the deregulation of markets starting in the late 1970s. This book explains how four major firm…
This is the story of a revolution in American industry: the massive deregulation of markets by the government starting in the late 1970s. After an era of New Deal controls that lasted forty years, and in response to a stagnating economy, a new intellectual and political consensu…
The purpose of this book is twofold. First, it lays out the forces that shaped the international aviation industry and that changed all the rules in the drive for liberalization. Second, it looks at the many interesting and difficult choices ahead that the airline industry in ge…
Transport policy in Britain
by Glaister, Stephen, Burnham, June, Stevens, Handley, Travers, Tony
fromPublic policy and politics
Transport is high on the political agenda as Labour in office attempts to redefine transport policy to meet environmental and social goals. This work explains who takes the decisions, how the organizations inside and outside government work, and the planning and financial framew…
Reconsiders the central purpose of social regulation-the abatement or control of risks to society. Recounts the experiences of pioneering agencies that have confronted the risk-control challenge directly, developing operational capacities for specifying risk concentrations, prob…