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This volume intends to cultivate an appreciation for the complexity of human decision making and the incentives that drive human behavior. By examining specific policy changes, it will delve into the effects of and lessons learned from regulations in financial markets, computer and internet governance, and health care innovation and delivery.
List of contents
Introduction by Stefanie Haeffele and Anne Hobson
Chapter 1: Economic Flaws in Computerized Socialism by Joseph Kane
Chapter 2: Reading Between the Lines: Rulemaking Discretion in the Federal Railroad Administration by Stephen Jones
Chapter 3: Williamsport Revisited: Applying an Austrian Lens to the Lumber and Fracking Booms of Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania by Erika Grace Davies
Chapter 4: The Fable of the Packets: A New Institutional/Market Process Approach to Network Neutrality by Nicholas Krosse
Chapter 5: Community Broadband, Community Benefits? An Economic Analysis of Local Government Broadband Initiatives by Brian Diegnan
Chapter 6: Entry Regulation in Hospital Markets: The Impact of Certificate of Need Laws on Hospital Concentration by Ariel Slonim
Chapter 7: Section 1115 Waivers: An Increasing Part of the Medicaid Program by Kelly Ferguson
Chapter 8: Monetary Policy After the Crisis and Alternative Systems for Macroeconomic Stability by Chris Kuiper
Chapter 9: Failed Interventions: The Increasing Ineffectiveness of Monetary and Fiscal Policies in High-Debt Environments by Katelyn Christ
Chapter 10: Risk-Based Capital Regulation and Bank Asset Allocations by Kristine Johnson
Chapter 11: Legal Entity Identifiers as Public Goods and Regulatory Management of Financial Risk by David Rann
Chapter 12: Economic Effects of the "Volcker Rule": Restrictions on Banking Activity and their Consequences for Economic Stability by Derek Thieme
About the author
Stefanie Haeffele is Senior Research Fellow, Deputy Director of Academic and Student Programs and a senior fellow for the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
Anne Hobson is a Program Manager for Academic and Student Programs at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
