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Regulatory Failure and Renewal

The Evolution of the Natural Monopoly Contract, Second Edition

May 31, 2022 | Trade paperback
ISBN: 9780228011828
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Description

Regulatory Failure and Renewal develops a framework to understand the choice of regulatory instrument used in Canada for natural monopolies such as telephone companies, water utilities, streetcars, hydroelectricity, and railways from the 1880s to the 1930s.Using the transaction-cost literature pioneered by Oliver Williamson, John Baldwin examines the nature of contractual failure in Canada in natural monopoly cases, asking why initial forms of contracts between the state and private enterprise failed and why this failure so often resulted in the use of public enterprise. Baldwin outlines early attempts to deal with natural monopolies - from the use of a franchise contract to regulatory tribunals and finally to public enterprise - and compares Canadian experiences to US approaches, which turned more frequently to regulatory tribunals. This difference is due to Canada's more limited constraints on the state's ability to exercise coercive power, which sometimes leads to contractual failure that results in replacing franchise and regulatory frameworks with public enterprise.Regulatory Failure and Renewal demonstrates that public enterprise arose not so much as part of a purposive choice but because of reoccurring failures in the contractual process between the Canadian state and private enterprise.

About this Author

John R. Baldwin taught in the economics department at Queen's University, worked at the Economic Council of Canada, and is the former head of the Economic Analysis Research Group at Statistics Canada.

ISBN: 9780228011828
Format: Trade paperback
Series: Carleton Library
Pages: 168
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2022-05-31

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