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Title: A Reader on Regulation (Oxford Readings in Socio-Legal Studies) by Robert Baldwin, Colin Scott, Christopher Hood ISBN: 0-19-876529-0 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $66.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Essential Readings for Regulators
Comment: In the last decade or so, regulation has been a growth industry both for practitioners and academics. Robert Baldwin, Colin Scott and Christopher Hood have put together a collection of some of the most important readings on regulation. The text will be an invaluable accompaniment to university courses in regulation (perhaps alongside Baldwin & Cave's textbook 'Understanding Regulation' (Oxford University Press, 1999)

The collection of readings is prefaced by an introductory essay by the authors which merits careful study. Controversially, they question whether, as regulation grows into a mature science, it may be entering a 'mid-life crisis' as regulation research risks losing its focus and direction.

The readings are organised around five themes:

1. Regulatory origins, development, and reform

2. Standard setting and rule choices

3. Varieties of regulatory styles and techniques

4. Varieties of regulatory scale

5. Variety in accounting for regulation

A sourcebook of around 500 pages in length has to make hard choices about what to leave in and what to omit. Obviously the authors have put a lot of thought into what A Reader on Regulation should contain. A particular strength is that all the readings are to some extent 'timeless', focusing on concerns that will continue to cause regulators headaches for the forseeable future.

Nonetheless, hard choices mean that some people are going to be disappointed. Personally, I would have liked to have seen some attention to the peculiar problems of regulation in developing countries, and more of a focus on accountability of regulators. More attention might also have been given to what happens when regulation goes wrong, particularly because the introductory essay draws attention to the need to look at the consequences of regulation.

Baldwin, Scott and Hood have done the regulatory community a great service by bringing together these readings into a convenient, affordable volume.

What a pity it is now out of print.

Rating: 4
Summary: An euro-american approach on regulation
Comment: As the name says this book gathers an array of essays,papers and chapters of books in the american born "new" science of regulation.It is made of hard to find materials.Even in this internat era is not easy to find material from out of stock book,or university published journals,or old papers.Perhaps ,you will be disapointed for the fact that the newest articles are 1995 papers.But the scope of the book seems to be put at hand the material not avaialble in the net. For americans and wordlwide readers will be of interest the mixed euro american origin of articles.The SHRADER FRECHETTE article will allow american to understand or to see an alternative explanation of the EU reject of biotech meat.Someone like the reviewer will not like the State regulation friendly approach by some of the author.But it remains usefull ,because to advance deregulation is necessary to know the counterreasons.If you like it you can also like Studies in Political Economy by Stigler(ed).And Ogus Regulation.