Infrastructure

Stefan Larsson, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law It is a rich book that neither ducks from challenging the disciplinary boundaries of economic theory nor from complex issues of spillover effects or hard-to-measure externalities. Frischmanns contribution includes the grand task of comparing and analysing the very much different types of infrastructurestransportations, telecommunications, environmental, intellectualin terms of managing commons.

Rustam Romaniuc, International Review of Economics Brett Frischmanns book is an important contribution to enhancing our understanding of the fundamental resources that shape our economic, social, and political opportunities. ... Most importantly, the books contribution lies in linking shared infrastructure resources we rely on daily, with a particular management regime that is capable of generating and maintaining the maximum social value within a community on nondiscriminatory terms.

<br>Brett M. Frischmann is Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, where he teaches intellectual property and internet law. After clerking for the Honorable Fred I. Parker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and practicing at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, DC, he joined the Loyola University, Chicago law faculty in 2002. He has held visiting appointments at Cornell, Fordham, and Syracuse. He is a co-author of one of the leading internet law casebooks entitled: Cyberlaw: Problems of Policy and Jurisprudence in the InformationAge, 4th Edition, along with Patricia L. Bellia, Paul Schiff Berman, and David G. Post. Professor Frischmann has written articles for the Columbia Law Review, Cornell Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Review of Law and Economics, and many other leading journals.<br>

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; PART I: FOUNDATIONS; CHAPTER ONE: DEFINING INFRASTRUCTURE AND COMMONS MANAGEMENT; CHAPTER TWO: OVERVIEW OF INFRASTRUCTURE ECONOMICS; CHAPTER THREE: MICROECONOMIC BUILDING BLOCKS; PART II: A DEMAND SIDE THEORY OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND COMMONS MANAGEMENT; CHAPTER FOUR: INFRASTRUCTURAL RESOURCES; CHAPTER FIVE: MANAGING INFRASTRUCTURE AS COMMONS; PART III: COMPLICATIONS ; CHAPTER SIX: INFRASTRUCTURE PRICING; CHAPTER SEVEN: CONGESTION; CHAPTER EIGHT: SUPPLY SIDE INCENTIVES; PART IV: TRADITIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE; CHAPTER NINE: TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE-ROADS; CHAPTER TEN: COMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE-TELECOMMUNICATIONS; PART V: NONTRADITIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE; CHAPTER ELEVEN: ENVIRONMENTAL INFRASTRUCTURE; CHAPTER TWELVE: INTELLECTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE; PART VI: MODERN DEBATES; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: NETWORK NEUTRALITY; CHAPTER FOURTEEN: APPLICATION TO OTHER MODERN DEBATES; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX