Research Catalog

Title

Regulating the product : quality and variety / e dited by Richard E. Caves and Marc J. Roberts.

Publication

• Cambridge, Mass. : Ballinger Publishing Company, [1975]
• ©1975

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Details

Additional Authors

• Caves, Richard E.
• Roberts, Marc J.
• Brookings Institution, editor.
• Harvard University, sponsoring body.

Description

xxiv, 268 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Industrial policy > Case studies > Congresses
• Quality control > Congresses

Genre/Form

Case studies.

Note

• "Prepared for the Brookings Institution."
• Papers that in most part grew from a workshop on the regulation of economic activity held at Harvard University.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction / Richard E. Caves, Marc J. Roberts -- Quality choice and monopoly regulation / Elisha A. Pazner -- Quality, competition and regulation ; evidence from the airline industry / Lawrence J. White -- Trade associations and self-regulation : major home appliances / Michael S. Hunt -- Regulation and self-regulation in the farm machinery industry / Robert T. Kudrle -- How should the content of entertainment television be determined? Self-regulation and the alternatives / Marc J. Roberts -- Market structure and embodied technological change / Richard E. Caves -- The market for commercial airliners / Sidney L. Carroll -- Liquefied and synthetic natural gas -- regulation chooses the expensive solutions / Thomas R. Stauffer -- Optimal pricing and income distribution / Elisha A. Pazner -- Franchise values, merit programming and policy options in television broadcasting / Harvey J. Leven -- Value of options, value of time and local airline subsidy / Richard E. Caves, Elisha A. Pazner.

ISBN

• 0884102726
• 9780884102724

LCCN

74018123

OCLC

• ocm01032301
• SCSB-1834675

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library