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Veljanovski, Cento (ed.)
Regulators and the market: an assessment of the growth of regulation in the UK. Londres: Institute of Economic Affairs, 1991. 243 p.
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Cento Veljanovski
ix
PART I
OVERVIEW AND ASSESSMENT
1
1.
The Regulation Game
3
Cento Veljanovski
Box 1: A Question of Regulation
7
Table 1: Regulatory Watchdogs, 1991
11
Table 2: Regulatory Agencies´ Staff & Budget, 1989-90
12
Table 3: Regulated Industry References to the MMC, 1983-1991
14
Table 4: Price Control Regulation, August 1991
18
References
26
2.
The Regulation of Privatised monopolies in the United Kingdom
29
M. E. Beesley and S. C. Littlechild
Table 1: Present Position: underlying Rate of Change of Technology in Regulated Industries
54
Table 2: Potential Position: Underlying Rate of Change of Technology in Regulated Industries after Policy Changes
55
References
56
3.
Regulatory Methods:
A case for "Hands Across the Atlantic"
59
Irwin M. Stelzer
PART II
THE REGULATORS
4.
Enter the Regulators
79
Sir Alan Peacock
5.
Office of Fair Trading:
Reflections on Regulation
85
Sir Gordon Borrie
6.
Office of Gas Supply:
Regulation of the Gas Sector
94
James McKinnon
7.
OFTEL:
Competition and the Duopoly Review
98
Sir Bryan Carsberg
8.
Office of Electricity Regulation:
The New Regulatory Framework for Electricity
107
S. C. Littlechild
9.
OFWAT:
Regulation of Water and Sewerage
119
I. C. R. Byatt
10.
Aviation Regulation:
What the Future holds
132
Sir Christopher Tugendhat
11.
ITC: The Reform of Broadcasting Regulation
141
David Glencross
12.
Current Themes in Regulation
152
M. E. Beesley
PART III
ALTERNATIVES TO REGULATION
157
13.
Law and Order Without State Coercion
159
Bruce L. Benson
14.
The Market Regulation of Industrial Safety
180
W. S. Sciebert
Figure 1: Determination of Accident Rate in Factory
182
Figure 2: Density of Worker Tastes for Injury Risk
186
Table 1: Fatal Accidents: Compensating Differentials
192
Table 2: Dependence of Accident Rates on Workers´ Compensation
196
Table 3: Studies of Various Types of Compensating Differentials
198
Table 4: Safety Representatives by Workplace Size
200
References
206
15.
Franchising, Natural Monopoly, and Privatisation
210
Antony W. Dnes
THE AUTORS
235