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Book Summary
A dramatic change of ownership, regulation, and organisation of essential public
services, such as electricity, gas, and telecommunications, has taken place in
Europe in less than twenty years. This was not the outcome of spontaneous
adaptation, but an entirely top-down policy experiment, mainly conceived in
London during Mrs. Thatcher's years, then pursued in Brussels - the "capital" of
the European Union--and imposed on more or less reluctant players by laws,
directives, regulations, and administrative and judicial decisions. The European
reform paradigm revolves around three pillars: privatization, unbundling, and
regulated liberalization of network industries. These industries, despite the
reforms, are still special, as they include core natural monopoly components
(the
ISBN-13
9780199674855
Language
English
Binding
Hard Bound
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Publishing Date
2013-08-16
Total Pages
448
Network Industries and Social Welfare: The Experiment that Reshuffled European Utilities
A dramatic change of ownership, regulation, and organisation of essential public
services, such as electricity, gas, and telecommunications, has taken place in
Europe in less than twenty years. This was not the outcome of spontaneous
adaptation, but an entirely top-down policy experiment, mainly conceived in
London during Mrs. Thatcher's years, then pursued in Brussels - the "capital" of
the European Union--and imposed on more or less reluctant players by laws,
directives, regulations, and administrative and judicial decisions. The European
reform paradigm revolves around three pillars: privatization, unbundling, and
regulated liberalization of network industries. These industries, despite the
reforms, are still special, as they include core natural monopoly components
(the