<title/> History can provide invaluable insights into important issues of the economic and social regulation of utilities, and offer lessons towards future debates. But the history of utility regulation -- which speaks of changing, diverse and complex experiences around the world -- was, unfortunately,...

The common agreement of the advantages of competition is usually supplemented by a similar one on the destructive characteristic of cartels. Starting from this verdict the contribution looks into various assumptions ?and finds considerable practical evidence contradicting the verdict. While...