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    Monograph available for loan
    Monograph available for loan
    The Arctic world (1989)
    New York : Portland House
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    Call number: AWI P5-24-95011
    Description / Table of Contents: The greatest wilderness on earth, the circumpolar Arctic has for centuries stirred our imagination and challenged us to explore its vast lands and seas. The Arctic World captures the spirit of this most northerly frontier - the majesty of its landscapes, the beauty of its plants and animals, the remarkable history of its peoples. Encompassing the northern reaches of seven countries and an area of 28 million square miles, the Arctic is, in fact, one natural realm where plants, animals and humans have learned to live in a hostile climate. Its expanses of land and water, however, are not always the barren tracts of popular myth. There are towering mountain ranges, the largest forest in the world, spectacular displays of flowers in the spring, and -a rich variety of sea and land birds and mammals. Its people range from the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic, Greenland and Alaska to the Lapps of Scandinavia and the Chukchi of Siberia. The Arctic World offers an exciting visual journey through this immense land. The 130 color and 100 black and white photographs, taken in each of the polar countries by renowned photographers, range from breathtaking scenery to intimate portraits of people at work and at play. Those depicting traditional ways of life that have all but disappeared from the modern Arctic are important visual records of the unique heritage of northern peoples. Old engravings and early photographs of arctic explorers, whalers and native men and women provide a historical perspective. The fascinating story of the adaptation of man, plants and animals to the arctic environment is told by six polar experts from around the world. They focus on the history of the Arctic from the ice ages to the present, the impact of European exploration, the astonishing variety of arctic flora and fauna, and the future of the Arctic in the face of twentieth-century technology.
    Type of Medium: Monograph available for loan
    Pages: 256 Seiten , Illustrationen
    ISBN: 0-517-67572-2 , 0517675722
    Language: English
    Note: Contents Preface / Minnie Aodla Freeman Foreword / Dr. William E. Taylor, Jr. PART ONE A LAND MOLDED BY ICE / Fred Bruemmer 1 The Northern Vision 2 The Circumpolar Realm Photo Essay: The Surprising Arctic 3 Trial by Ice 4 Hunters and Herders Photo Essay: Arctic Waters 5 Early Exploration 6 The Arctic Route to Cathay Photo Essay: From the Mountains to the Sea 7 Fur Empires of Siberia and Alaska 8 Arctic Knights 9 From Furs to Factories Photo Essay: Polar Animals and Birds PART TWO THE ARCTIC WILDERNESS 10 Wildlife of the Sea and Land / Dr. Thor Larsen 11 Plants of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic / Dr. Frans Wielgolaski Photo Essay: A Brief Flowering PART THREE PEOPLE OF THE FAR NORTH 12 The Ancient Arctic / Dr. Robert McGhee Photo Essay: Traditional Life 13 Polar Exploration / Academician A.F. Treshnikov 14 A Changing World / Dr. Ernest S. Burch, Jr. Photo Essay: Modern Life Index
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  • 2
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    An Analysis of the State of Competition in Long-Distance Telephone Markets (1997)
    Springer
    Journal of regulatory economics 11 (1997), S. 227-255 
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    ISSN: 1573-0468
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: Abstract In this paper, we examine seven indicia of the effect of regulated competition in long-distance telecommunications. The evidence we have examined suggests that regulation or the threat of antitrust intervention are the major factors which constrain AT & T's prices to small customers. We conclude that small customers have yet to enjoy the full benefits of competition in long distance.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1007954105032
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    An Analysis of the Welfare Effects of Long-Distance Market Entry by an Integrated Access and Long-Distance Provider (1998)
    Springer
    Journal of regulatory economics 13 (1998), S. 183-196 
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    ISSN: 1573-0468
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: Abstract This paper discusses the welfare effects of entry by a vertically integrated access and long-distance service provider into the long-distance market. Using a stylized model of these markets, we conclude that substantial net consumer benefits arise when a vertically integrated firm is created by the entry of a LEC into the long-distance market, and these gains are mostly achieved from declines in supra-competitive profits received by long-distance incumbents. We find that these gains dominate losses in producer surplus that could arise even if integrated firm entry were to displace more efficient long-distance providers.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1008012800237
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    Efficient pricing of telecommunications services: The state of the debate (1993)
    Springer
    Review of industrial organization 8 (1993), S. 21-37 
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    ISSN: 1573-7160
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: Conclusions Gabel and Kennet resurrect three familiar arguments in support of their view that there would be no clear welfare gain from raising the price of exchange service: (i) access costs vary with usage, (ii) access is a joint input that would not be recovered through a fixed charge if markets were competitive, and (iii) new technology has increased the incremental cost of access, and services that require the new technology should bear the increased costs.28 By my scorecard, the first round is a tie, and the last two go to Kahn and Shew. In the forward-looking network we use to measure incremental costs, there is a significant proportion of shared facilities in what once was the domain of dedicated loops. The FCC Part 69 accounting rules probably overstate the amount of loop plant that is invariant to use, and the problem of non-traffic sensitive cost recovery is probably not as severe as would appear from accounting data. Nonetheless, whatever the amount of non-traffic sensitive costs, the issue remains as to how they should be recovered. Even if access ix treated as a fixed common input into the provision of local and toll usage, efficient prices would recover fixed costs on a flat-rate basis and variable costs on a per-minute basis. Finally, forward-looking incremental costs are the only costs that are relevant for pricing decisions, and those costs take the current network as given. Recovering network upgrade costs from enhanced services is correct if, on a forward-looking basis, additional demand for enhanced services (or the totality of enhanced services demand) requires that additional network upgrade costs be incurred.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01029764
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    Aligning Price Regulation with Telecommunications Competition (2003)
    De Gruyter
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    Publication Date: 2003-01-01
    Description: Since the 1990s, local exchange telecommunications carriers (LECs) have been subject to incentive regulation plans. This paper discusses theoretical and practical aspects of the evolution of price regulation as retail competition increases and as regulators mandate extensive availability of wholesale services. Particular issues include (1) adjusting price change/productivity expectations as the proportion of services subject to price regulation decreases, (2) whether earnings sharing is compatible with more limited price regulation, and (3) compatibility among wholesale and retail price and quality regulation. The paper concludes by describing recent developments in specific jurisdictions and recommends directions for future incentive regulation.
    Print ISSN: 2194-5993
    Electronic ISSN: 1446-9022
    Topics: Economics
    Published by De Gruyter
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    Telecommunications Deregulation (2012)
    American Economic Association
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    Publication Date: 2012-05-01
    Description: From Fred Kahn's writings and experiences as a telecommunications regulator and commenter, we draw the following conclusions: prices must be informed by costs; costs are actual incremental costs; costs and prices are an outcome of a Schumpeterian competitive process, not the starting point; excluding incumbents from markets is fundamentally anticompetitive; and a regulatory transition to deregulation entails propensities to micromanage the process to generate preferred outcomes, visible competitors and expedient price reductions. And most important, where effective competition takes place among platforms characterized by sunk investment—land-line telephony, cable and wireless —traditional regulation is unnecessary and likely to be anticompetitive.
    Print ISSN: 0002-8282
    Electronic ISSN: 1944-7981
    Topics: Economics
    Published by American Economic Association
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