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A comprehensive review of U.S. substantive merger law, this book gives you indispensable guidance you can put into practice today.
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This work assesses the status of the public utility deregulation movement in the USA. It focuses on the continuation of releasing competitive forces in the revolutionary deregulation of a large portion of the public utilities industries since 1980.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Magic and Cacophony -- PART ONE: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE -- 1 Dances with Regulators -- 2 Etheric Bedlam -- 3 Protection by Subtraction -- 4 Myth Calculation -- 5 Eureka-nomics -- PART TWO: SILENCE OF THE ENTRANTS -- 6 The Death of DuMont -- 7 "Thank God for C-SPAN!"--8 Lost in Space -- 9 Baptists, Bootleggers, and LPFM -- PART THREE: ADVENTURES IN CONTENT REGULATION -- 10 Orwell's Revenge: The Fairness Doctrine -- 11 Must Carry This, Shall Not Carry That -- 12 Indecent Exposure -- PART FOUR: SLOUCHING TOWARD FREEDOM -- 13 The Thirty Years' War -- 14 Deal of the Decade -- 15 The Toaster Tsunami -- 16 Dirigiste Backlash -- 17 What Would Coase Do? -- 18 Hoarders Anonymous -- PART FIVE: BEYOND -- 19 The Abolitionists -- 20 Spectrum Policy as if the Future Mattered -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
Reports for 2002- include: The Annual report of the Council of Economic Advisers.
International policies toward protecting intellectual property rights have seen profound changes over the past two decades. Rules on how to protect patents, copyright, trademarks and other forms of intellectual property have become a standard component of international trade agreements. Most significantly, during the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations (1986-94), members of what is today the World Trade Organization (WTO) concluded the Agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), which sets out minimum standards of protection that most of the world's economies have to respect. How will developing countries fare in this new international environment? Intellect...
General Motors and IBM have been battered to their cores. Jack Welch, the chairman of General Electric, called the frenzied competition of the 1980's "a white knuckle decade" and said the 1990s would be worse. In this pathbreaking book that will define this new age of "hypercompetition," Richard D'Aveni reveals how competitive moves and countermoves escalate with such ferocity today that the traditional sources of competitive advantage can no longer be sustained. To compete in this dynamic environment, D'Aveni argues that a company must fundamentally shift its strategic focus. He constructs a brilliant operational model that shows how firms move up "escalation ladders" as advantage is contin...
Drawings of everyday objects, activities, and scenes in France are accompanied by brief texts in English and vocabulary words, phrases, and short sentences in French.