This book provides the tools needed to analyse the present and the future of economic regulation.

Shows how the deregulation of public services in the US has been a success, why it has failed elsewhere, and what can be done to fix this.

Organizing a century of legal principles to help the U.S. public utility industry resolve tensions created by the current legal boundaries of legal regulation a

A critical examination of the role of the independent regulatory commissions, attempting to develop a more realistic concept of the process of governmental regu

Brings economic regulation to life by tracing theoretical insights through to real-world applications in eight essential regulated sectors.