What's Yours is Mine: Open Access and the Rise of Infrastructure SocialismThis book explores how regimes that respect property rights including the right to exclude rivals better serve consumers and innovation. |
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Page 21 - No public utility shall henceforth begin the construction of a new facility, plant or system, or of any extension of its facility, plant or system, without first having obtained from the commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity require or will require such construction...
Page 11 - ... a permanent physical occupation authorized by government is a taking without regard to the public interests that it may serve.