Electricity is a quirky commodity: more often than not, it cannot be stored, easily transported, or imported from overseas. Before lighting up our homes, it changes hands through specialized electricity markets that rely on engineering expertise to trade competitively while resp…
In this book, Sidney Dekker sets out to identify the market mechanisms that explain how less government paradoxically leads to greater compliance burdens. This book gives shape and substance to a suspicion that has become widespread among workers in almost every industry: we hav…
The freedom to make more rules -- Free markets in theory; intensive managerial control in practice -- The Macro: Sell out and pull out -- The Meso: Mistrust and monitor -- The Micro: Audit and cash in -- How governments missed this -- A retreat into rules. "In this book, Sidney…
"In this book, Sidney Dekker sets out to identify the market mechanisms that explain how less government paradoxically leads to greater compliance burdens. This book gives shape and substance to a suspicion that has become widespread among workers in almost every industry: we ha…
"In this book, Sidney Dekker sets out to identify the market mechanisms that explain how less government paradoxically leads to greater compliance burdens. This book gives shape and substance to a suspicion that has become widespread among workers in almost every industry: we ha…
"In this book, Sidney Dekker sets out to identify the market mechanisms that explain how less government paradoxically leads to greater compliance burdens. This book gives shape and substance to a suspicion that has become widespread among workers in almost every industry: we ha…
"This book represents the fruit of a conference entitled 'Regulating the European market' presented jointly by Global Law Firm Clifford Chance and the Institute of European and Comparative Law in the University of Oxford. The Conference was held at St. Anne's College, Oxford, in…
The discourse of 'Better Regulation' is a hot topic, intimately associated with the drive for cost savings and a more efficient economy. This work aims to provide an understanding of UK and EU regulation, the accountability issues involved, and problems of enforcement.
On its Surface, this book is aimed at the topical issue of regulatory reform. But underneath it strives to go beyond the topical, seeking to analyze regulation as a distinct discipline and to help teach it as a separate subject.
The past thirty-five years witnessed an extraordinary transformation of government economic intervention across broad sectors of the economy throughout the world and the political economy of the reform movement has been heavily debated. This volume brings together a panel of dis…
The past thirty years have witnessed a transformation of government economic intervention in broad segments of industry throughout the world. Many industries historically subject to economic price and entry controls have been largely deregulated, including natural gas, trucking,…