Auctioning public assets

analysis and alternatives

In many countries all over the world, governments are privatising firms that were previously under public control. This is happening, for example, in public utility sectors such as gas, water and electricity, in transport sectors (such as rail and metro) and in radio and telephony ...

"The Public interest" in regulation

The concept of 'the public interest' is often used in legal and political discourse, lending an air of legitimacy and respectability to exercises of power. However the term is rarely defined in any meaningful sense. This book considers abstract concepts of public interest from the ...

Las guerras del agua

contaminación, privatización y negocio

En Las guerras del agua, Vandana Shiva utiliza su notable conocimiento de la ciencia y la sociedad para analizar la histórica erosión de los derechos de acceso al agua por parte de las comunidades humanas. Al analizar el comercio internacional del agua, incluyendo su embalsamiento ...

La empresa pública en Europa

una perspectiva histórica

En este libro se explica el comportamiento, en el pasado y en el presente, de las empresas públicas en los principales países de la Europa occidental. La ingente información histórica utilizada, que comprende los siglos XVIII, XIX y XX, permite desterrar algunos tópicos apriorísticos sobre ...

Games and public administration

the law of economics of regulation and licensing

Despite the increasing trend towards deregulation, the public regulation of private activities remains a common phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, it is frequently claimed that slow and costly regulatory licensing procedures impede economic growth. This book investigates the strategic and adaptive interaction between citizen-applicants and ...

Market discipline across countries and industries

The effectiveness of market discipline -- the strong built- in incentives that encourage banks and financial systems to operate soundly and efficiently -- commands much attention today, particularly in light of recent accounting scandals. As government discipline, in the form of regulation, seems to grows less effective ...

Public private pertnerships

the worldwide revolution infrastructure provision and project finance

This path-breaking book considers the recent trend for governments to look increasingly to private sector finance, provided by private enterprises constructing and managing public infrastructure facilities in partnership with government bodies. One outstanding feature of the book is that it brings together an academic assessment ...

Regulating finance

balancing freedom and risk

At a time when regulation of financial markets has been subject to major upheavals this survey will be of particular value. The author is one of the most prominent officials involved in formulating and executing regulatory policy. His concern is to ensure that the new ...

Regulation

legal form and economic theory

This is a reprint of Anthony Ogus' classic study of regulation, first published in the 1990s. It examines how, since the last decades of the twentieth century there have been fundamental changes in the relationship between the state and industry. With the aid of economic ...

L'ordine giuridico del mercato

Contro le pretese di naturalità del mercato, un#autorevole e lucida analisi della funzione conformatrice del diritto. Contro le pretese di neutralità tecnocratica, l#attesa della decisione politica. INDICE Il carattere politico-giuridico del mercato (a mo# di prefazione) - I. L#ordine giuridico del mercato - II ...

Las privatizaciones y la desnacionalización de América Latina

En este libro se analizan las políticas neoliberales impulsadas por las instituciones financieras internacionales y aplicadas por los distintos gobiernos desde los años noventa hasta el 2002. Se estudian de manera crítica los postulados teóricos que han dejado a la Argentina y a la mayoría ...

The politics of regulation

institutions and regulatory reforms for the age of governance

This book suggests that the scope and breadth of regulatory reforms since the mid-1980s and particularly during the 1990s, are so striking that they necessitate a reappraisal of current approaches to the study of the politics of regulation. The authors call for the adoption of ...

Le limitazione amministrative della spesa

Gender and the welfare state

care, work and welfare in Europe and the USA

"Gender and the Welfare State" offers a comparative picture of the welfare state and gender relations. It explores how care, work and welfare are constituted in eight countries (France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and the USA). The book examines the impact ...

Democracy and regulation

how the public can govern essential services

Essential services are being privatised the world over. Whether it's water, gas, electricity or the phone network, everywhere from Sao Paulo in Brazil to Leeds in the UK is following the US economic model and handing public services over to private companies whose principal ...

The economics of public spending

Tolley's tax guide

2003-04

La evaluación de la acción y de las políticas públicas

La evaluación de la Acción y de las Políticas Públicas es el primer texto en español que abarca la discusión de la metodología de la evaluación, el alcance conceptual de la evaluación de la acción pública en un Estado en transformación, el análisis de la ...

Intelligence as a principle of public economy = Del pensiero come principio d'economia publica

La realidad social

Decir que la sociología es la ciencia que estudia la realidad social no ofrece dificultad, pero decir qué sea la realidad social es muy difícil. La realidad social, en efecto, no sólo es como es (claro está), sino también como parece que es, lo que ...