TY - BOOK AU - Kahn, Alfred E. TI - Economics of regulation: principles and institutions SN - 9780262111294 U1 - 338.973 KAH PY - 1988/// CY - Cambridge PB - The MIT Press KW - Industrial policy --United States KW - Monopolies --United States KW - Trade regulation --United States N1 - Suggested by Prof. Diptiranjan Mahapatra; Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I Beyond Market Failure: 1 Government failure vs market failure: principles of regulation Joseph E Stiglitz; 2 Effective regulation through credible cost-benefit analysis: the opportunity costs of superfund Michael Greenstone; 3 From 'state interference' to the 'return to the market': the rhetoric of economic regulation from the old Gilded Age to the new Mary O Furner; 4 Lessons from Europe: some reflections on the European Union and the regulation of business Neil Fligstein; 5 Confidence games: how does regulation constitute markets? Daniel Carpenter; Part II Beyond the Economic Theory of Politics: 6 The end of special interests theory and the beginning of a more positive view of democratic politics Donald Wittman; 7 Public choice: a critical reassessment Jessica Leight; 8 The paranoid style in the study of American politics David A Moss and Mary Oey; 9 Law, policy, and cooperation Yochai Benkler; Part III Beyond Command and Control: 10 What opportunity is knocking? Regulating corporate governance in the United States Mary A O'Sullivan; 11 Taxation as a regulatory tool: lessons from environmental taxes in Europe Monica Prasad; 12 Redesigning regulation: a case study from the consumer credit market Elizabeth Warren; 13 Origins and regulatory consequences of the subprime crisis Barry Eichengreen; 14 Prospects for economic 'self-regulation' in the United States: an historian's view from the early twenty-first century Edward J Balleisen; 15 Deregulation theories in a litigious society: American antitrust and tort Tony Freyer; 16 Markets in the shadow of the state: an appraisal of deregulation and implications for future research Marc Allen Eisner; Conclusion N2 - As Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board in the late 1970s, Alfred E. Kahn presided over the deregulation of the airlines and his book, published earlier in that decade, presented the first comprehensive integration of the economic theory and institutio ER -