Political competition and economic regulation / edited by Peter Bernholz and Roland Vaubel for the Egon Sohmen Foundation.

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English
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London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
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1 online resource (294 p.)

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Organized, readable, technically sound and comprehensive from both theoretical and empirical standpoints, this book summarizes a vast amount of institutional, historical and descriptive detail.Using case studies from the US, Canada, Germany and Switzerland as well as the European Union and the global economy, this is the first book of its kind to examine historical evidence on how competition among states - or the lack of it - affects regulation, especially labour market regulation. Edited by internationally respected scholars of economics and containing contribu
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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English
Contents
  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; 1 The effect of interjurisdictional competition on regulation: Theory and overview; 2 Politico-economic causes of labour regulation in the United States: Rent seeking, alliances, raising rivals' costs (even lowering one's own?) and interjurisdictional competition; 3 Interjurisdictional competition in regulation: Evidence for Canada at the provincial level; 4 Labour market regulation in the EU-15: Causes and consequences; 5 Political competition and economic regulation in German history
  • 6 Regulatory competition and federalism in Switzerland: Diffusion by horizontal and vertical interaction7 The drivers of deregulation in the era of globalization; Index
ISBN
  • 1-134-08656-3
  • 0-429-24181-X
  • 1-280-91792-X
  • 9786610917921
  • 0-203-94687-1
OCLC
  • 476091273
  • 1000440691
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  • 10.4324/9780203946879
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