Aristotle in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern

By Paul Strathern

“Each of those little books is witty and dramatic and creates a feeling of time, position, and character....I can't think about a greater technique to introduce oneself and one’s associates to Western civilization.”—Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe. “Well-written, transparent and proficient, they've got a breezy wit approximately them....I locate them tough to forestall reading.”—Richard Bernstein, New York Times. “Witty, illuminating, and blessedly concise.”—Jim Holt, Wall highway Journal. those short and enlightening explorations of our best thinkers convey their principles to existence in interesting and obtainable type. Philosophical suggestion is deciphered and made complete and fascinating to nearly all people. faraway from being a novelty, every one ebook is a hugely subtle appraisal of the thinker and his paintings, authoritative and obviously provided.

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By Paul Strathern

“Each of those little books is witty and dramatic and creates a feeling of time, position, and character....I can't think about a greater technique to introduce oneself and one’s associates to Western civilization.”—Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe. “Well-written, transparent and proficient, they've got a breezy wit approximately them....I locate them tough to forestall reading.”—Richard Bernstein, New York Times. “Witty, illuminating, and blessedly concise.”—Jim Holt, Wall highway Journal. those short and enlightening explorations of our best thinkers convey their principles to existence in interesting and obtainable type. Philosophical suggestion is deciphered and made complete and fascinating to nearly all people. faraway from being a novelty, every one ebook is a hugely subtle appraisal of the thinker and his paintings, authoritative and obviously provided.

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It is accordingly less costly to society to have production carried out by one firm than by many. Thus, rather than have three railway or electricity companies laying separate networks of rails or cables where one would do, it may be more efficient to give one firm a monopoly subject to regulation of such matters as prices and access to the network. Determining whether a natural monopoly exists requires a comparison of demand for the product with the extent of the economies of scale available in production.

For other definitions of good or better regulation see Mandelkern Group on Better Regulation, Final Report (Brussels, 13 Nov. 2002) (‘Mandelkern Report’). 10 If Parliament is yet to provide a mandate because no regulatory statute has been passed in an area— say, when a regulatory Bill is being debated—any discussion of ‘good’ regulation is more open-ended than usual. Reference, in such circumstances, is likely to be made to the four criteria other than the mandate that are discussed here and also to governmental claims to possess a mandate for a certain regulatory approach (based, for instance, on manifesto statements) and to more general arguments concerning social justice.

Veljanovski, ‘Regulation by Cost Benefit Analysis’ (1984) 62 Public Administration 51. 23 See Prosser, Law and the Regulators, 15–24; ‘Regulation and Social Solidarity’ (2006) 33 Journal of Law and Society 364–87. 24 C. Foster, Privatisation, Public Ownership and the Regulation of Natural Monopoly (Oxford, 1992), ch. 9. 25 Prosser, Law and the Regulators, 24. See also Chapter 2, above, on rationales for regulating and Chapter 15, below, on the application of cost-benefit testing to regulation. 32 FUNDAMENTALS The Role of the Five Criteria The above five claims, it can be seen, are all fraught with difficulties but collectively they constitute a set of benchmarks for assessing regulatory regimes.

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