José A Gómez-Ibáñez
Author
Language
English
Description
In the 1980s and '90s, many countries turned to the private sector to provide infrastructure and utilities-such as gas, telephones, and highways-with the idea that market-based incentives would control costs and improve the quality of essential services. But high-profile failures have since raised troubling questions about privatization. This book addresses one of the most vexing of these: how can government fairly and effectively regulate "natural...