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Author Klein, Daniel B.

Title Curb rights : a foundation for free enterprise in urban transit / Daniel B. Klein, Adrian Moore, Binyam Reja
Published Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [1997]
©1997

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Description ix, 148 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Introduction -- Sect. 1. Diagnosing Traditional Transit. 2. The Triumph of the Automobile. 3. The Fizzle of Traditional Transit. 4. Why Traditional Transit Fizzles -- Sect. 2. Transit Markets Improperly Regulated and Improperly Deregulated. 5. Jitneys and Interloping. 6. Edge Transit Services in the United States. 7. Bus Privatization and Deregulation in Britain. 8. Contracting Out Bus Service in the United States -- Sect. 3. Property Rights and Route-Based Transit Markets. 9. A Property Rights Theory of Transit Markets. 10. Devising Property Rights for Transit Markets. 11. How Property Rights Resolve Problems of Free-Market Transit -- Sect. 4. Policy Recommendations and Conclusions. 12. Further Policy Recommendations. 13. Conclusion: Transcending the Choice between Monopoly and Lawless Competition
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-141) and index
Subject Free enterprise -- Great Britain.
Local transit -- Government policy -- Great Britain.
Free enterprise -- United States.
Local transit -- Government policy -- United States.
Right of property -- Great Britain.
Right of property -- United States.
Author Moore, Adrian T. (Adrian Thomas), 1962-
Reja, Binyam.
Brookings Institution.
LC no. 96045843
ISBN 0815749392 (paperback: alk. paper)
0815749406 (alk. paper)