TY  - GEN
T1  - Ties that bind : economic and political dilemmas of urban utility networks, 1800-1990
T2  - University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections
T2  - University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions
A1  - Jacobson, Charles David
LA  - English
PP  - Pittsburgh
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
YR  - 2000
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn606493392
AB  - "In this comparative historical study, Charles David Jacobson explores broad public policy concerns about private monopoly and the role of government in society, while at the same time addressing highly practical questions of how to make ownership, regulatory, and contracting arrangements for municipal services work better. For his analysis, Jacobson draws upon economic history to shed light on relationships between technology, market forces, and problems of governance that have arisen in connection with different utility networks. Focusing on four major U.S. cities - Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, and Pittsburgh - his study spans nearly two centuries, from the creation of centralized water systems in the first half of the nineteenth century and the building of electric utilities from the 1880s to the 1980s to an analysis of cable television franchising from the 1960s to the 1980s. Throughout, he argues, information and transactions costs played decisive roles in determining how well different ownership and regulatory arrangements functioned in different situations. Based upon extensive research in primary sources and using bold conceptualizations for his analysis, Jacobson's work moves us closer to understanding the political, economic, and technological dilemmas of modern urban utility networks."
OP  - 282
CN  - HD2766 .J33 2000
SN  - 9780822961475
SN  - 0822961474
SN  - 9780822970552
SN  - 0822970554
SN  - 0822941333
SN  - 9780822941330
KW  - Public utilities : United States : Case studies.
KW  - Public utilities : Deregulation : United States : Case studies.
KW  - Water utilities : United States : Case studies.
KW  - Electric utilities : United States : Case studies.
KW  - Telecommunication policy : United States : Case studies.
KW  - Cable television : Government policy : United States : Case studies.
KW  - Services publics : États-Unis : Études de cas.
KW  - Services publics : Déréglementation : États-Unis : Études de cas.
KW  - Services d'eau : États-Unis : Études de cas.
KW  - Services publics d'électricité : États-Unis : Études de cas.
KW  - Télécommunications : Politique gouvernementale : États-Unis : Études de cas.
KW  - Télédistribution : Politique gouvernementale : États-Unis : Études de cas.
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General
KW  - Cable television : Government policy
KW  - Electric utilities
KW  - Public utilities
KW  - Public utilities : Deregulation
KW  - Telecommunication policy
KW  - Water utilities
KW  - United States
KW  - Openbare voorzieningen.
KW  - Kabeltelevisie.
KW  - Steden.
KW  - Kollektiva nyttigheter : historia : Förenta staterna.
KW  - Samhällsnyttiga företag : historia : Förenta staterna.
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Case studies.
KW  - Études de cas.
ER  -