The Half-Life of Policy Rationales: How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: The Half-Life of Policy Rationales: How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues	1
Pt. I	Metering, Excluding, and Charging	19
1	Technology, Marine Conservation, and Fisheries Management	21
2	The Lighthouse as a Private-Sector Collective Good	38
3	Motorway Financing and Provision: Technology Favors a New Approach	47
4	Buying Time at the Curb	60
5	Fencing the Airshed: Using Remote Sensing to Police Auto Emissions	86
Pt. II	Quality Assurance and Consumer Protection	107
6	Technology and the Case for Free Banking	109
7	Consumer Protection Regulation and Information on the Internet	125
8	Medical Licensing: Existing Public Policy and Technological Change	144
Pt. III	Natural Monopoly?	159
9	Technology and Electricity: Overcoming the Umbilical Mentality	161
10	Avoiding the Grid: Technology and the Decentralization of Water	184
11	Technological Change and the Case for Government Intervention in Postal Services	208
Pt. IV	Other Areas of Policy	225
12	The Entrepreneurial Community in Light of Advancing Business Practices and Technologies	227
13	Technology and the Protection of Endangered Species	243
	About the Contributors	257
	Index	263