Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction / Leonard W. Weiss -- Rail and trucking deregulation / Thomas Gale Moore -- The changing airline industry / Daniel P. Kaplan -- The rise and fall and rise of cable television regulation / Bruce M. Owen and Paul D. Gottlieb -- Petroleum regulation and public policy / R. Glenn Hubbard and Robert J. Weiner -- Natural gas--the regulatory transition / Ronald R. Braeutigam and R. Glenn Hubbard -- The partial deregulation of banks and other depository institutions / Lawrence J. White -- The regulatory change in telecommunications--the dissolution of AT&T / Gerald W. Brock -- Reforming OSHA regulation of workplace risks / W. Kip Viscusi -- Uncommon sense--the program to reform pollution control policy / T.H. Tietenberg.