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Public Service Liberalism - Telecommunications and Transitions in Public Policy (Hardcover)
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Public Service Liberalism - Telecommunications and Transitions in Public Policy (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Identifying a form of government intervention in social and
economic affairs called public service liberalism, Alan Stone looks
to that ideology to confront the problems of the 1990s and beyond.
He shows in this fascinating case study that the policy has been
effective in the past: the American telephone industry from its
inception until 1934 is an illustration of how public service
liberalism served both economic efficiency and a complex structure
of public values. Stone depicts the stages by which public service
liberalism was replaced by less adequate policies and suggests ways
that it could be successfully restored. Furthermore, Stone
demonstrates that government-business relationships like the one
that prevailed in the telephone industry were common in the
nineteenth and the early twentieth century. He argues that this
period was not an era of laissez-faire, as is often alleged, but
that its economic energy and extraordinary technological progress
were accompanied by complete acceptance of certain kinds of
government intervention. Challenging the presuppositions not only
of the new ideologists of deregulation, privatization, and
competition but also of the practitioners of what he calls the
"sanctimonious muddle" of present-day liberalism, Stone
demonstrates that public service liberalism could help resolve
current problems, such as those in the savings and loan
institutions and the cable television industry. Originally
published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
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