
Infrastructure
The Social Value of Shared Resources
Brett M. Frischmann(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 17. January 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
436 pages
978-0-19-997550-1 (ISBN)
Description
Infrastructure resources are the subject of many contentious public policy debates, including what to do about crumbling roads and bridges, whether and how to protect our natural environment, energy policy, even patent law reform, universal health care, network neutrality regulation and the future of the Internet. Each of these involves a battle to control infrastructure resources, to establish the terms and conditions under which the public receives access, and to determine how the infrastructure and various dependent systems evolve over time.
Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources devotes much needed attention to understanding how society benefits from infrastructure resources and how management decisions affect a wide variety of interests. The book links infrastructure, a particular set of resources defined in terms of the manner in which they create value, with commons, a resource management principle by which a resource is shared within a community. The infrastructure commons ideas have broad implications for scholarship and public policy across many fields ranging from traditional infrastructure like roads to environmental economics to intellectual property to Internet policy.
Economics has become the methodology of choice for many scholars and policymakers in these areas. The book offers a rigorous economic challenge to the prevailing wisdom, which focuses primarily on problems associated with ensuring adequate supply. The author explores a set of questions that, once asked, seem obvious: what drives the demand side of the equation, and how should demand-side drivers affect public policy? Demand for infrastructure resources involves a range of important considerations that bear on the optimal design of a regime for infrastructure management. The book identifies resource valuation and attendant management problems that recur across many different fields and many different resource types, and it develops a functional economic approach to understanding and analyzing these problems and potential solutions.
Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources devotes much needed attention to understanding how society benefits from infrastructure resources and how management decisions affect a wide variety of interests. The book links infrastructure, a particular set of resources defined in terms of the manner in which they create value, with commons, a resource management principle by which a resource is shared within a community. The infrastructure commons ideas have broad implications for scholarship and public policy across many fields ranging from traditional infrastructure like roads to environmental economics to intellectual property to Internet policy.
Economics has become the methodology of choice for many scholars and policymakers in these areas. The book offers a rigorous economic challenge to the prevailing wisdom, which focuses primarily on problems associated with ensuring adequate supply. The author explores a set of questions that, once asked, seem obvious: what drives the demand side of the equation, and how should demand-side drivers affect public policy? Demand for infrastructure resources involves a range of important considerations that bear on the optimal design of a regime for infrastructure management. The book identifies resource valuation and attendant management problems that recur across many different fields and many different resource types, and it develops a functional economic approach to understanding and analyzing these problems and potential solutions.
Reviews / Votes
It is a rich book that neither ducks from challenging the disciplinary boundaries of economic theory nor from complex issues of spillover effects or hard-to-measure externalities. Frischmanns contribution includes the grand task of comparing and analysing the very much different types of infrastructurestransportations, telecommunications, environmental, intellectualin terms of managing commons. * Stefan Larsson, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law * Brett Frischmanns book is an important contribution to enhancing our understanding of the fundamental resources that shape our economic, social, and political opportunities. ... Most importantly, the books contribution lies in linking shared infrastructure resources we rely on daily, with a particular management regime that is capable of generating and maintaining the maximum social value within a community on nondiscriminatory terms. * Rustam Romaniuc, International Review of Economics *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
658 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-997550-1 (9780199975501)
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Person
Brett M. Frischmann is Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, where he teaches intellectual property and internet law. After clerking for the Honorable Fred I. Parker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and practicing at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, DC, he joined the Loyola University, Chicago law faculty in 2002. He has held visiting appointments at Cornell, Fordham, and Syracuse. He is a co-author of one of the leading internet law casebooks entitled: Cyberlaw: Problems of Policy and Jurisprudence in the Information Age, 4th Edition, along with Patricia L. Bellia, Paul Schiff Berman, and David G. Post. Professor Frischmann has written articles for the Columbia Law Review, Cornell Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Review of Law and Economics, and many other leading journals.
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Professor of LawProfessor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
Content
Acknowledgments ; Foreword ; Introduction ; Part I: Foundations ; Chapter One: Defining Infrastructure and Commons Management ; Chapter Two: Overview of Infrastructure Economics ; Chapter Three: Microeconomic Building Blocks ; Part II: A Demand Side Theory of Infrastructure and Commons Management ; Chapter Four: Infrastructural Resources ; Chapter Five: Managing Infrastructure as Commons ; Part III: Complications ; Chapter Six: Infrastructure Pricing ; Chapter Seven: Congestion ; Chapter Eight: Supply Side Incentives ; Part IV: Traditional Infrastructure ; Chapter Nine: Transportation Infrastructure-Roads ; Chapter Ten: Communications Infrastructure-Telecommunications ; Part V: Nontraditional Infrastructure ; Chapter Eleven: Environmental Infrastructure ; Chapter Twelve: Intellectual Infrastructure ; Part VI: Modern Debates ; Chapter Thirteen: Network Neutrality ; Chapter Fourteen: Application to Other Modern Debates ; Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index