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Franchise Bidding for Natural Monopolies-in General and with Respect to CATV

Williamson, Oliver E.·1976·The Bell Journal of Economics

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The orthodox attitude among economists toward regulation is one of "disdain and contempt." The general reputation is undeserved, but it fails to discriminate among different economic activities and different types of regulation. An effort to distinguish between those circumstances in which regulation, in some form, is immanent from those in which market modes can be made to work relatively well is needed.

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Authors
Williamson, O. E.
Venue
The Bell Journal of Economics
Publisher
JSTOR
Published
1976
Volume
7
Issue
1
Pages
73
ISSN
0361-915X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1492715005
Cited by
862
References
1
FWCI
19.87
Type
journal article
Language
en
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