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Four Muses of Regula.on, Organiza.on, and Innova.on in
Electricity Distribu.on L. Lynne Kiesling
Department of Economics NU/Kellogg/Searle Center
Electricity Dialogue April 2015
Crea.ve destruc.on – Joseph Schumpeter
The fundamental impulse that sets and keeps the capitalist engine in mo.on comes from the new consumers’ goods, the new methods of produc.on or transporta.on, the new markets, the new forms of industrial organiza.on that capitalist enterprise creates. [...] This process of Crea.ve Destruc.on is the essen.al fact about capitalism. It is what capitalism consists in and what every capitalist concern has got to live in.
Transac.on costs & the boundary of the firm – Ronald Coase
• Digital innova.on reduces transac.on costs
• Changes in transac.on costs change the boundary of the firm
• Falling transac.on costs reduce the economic impetus for ver.cal integra.on
Regulator as gardener, not engineer – F. A. Hayek
If man is not to do more harm than good in his efforts to improve the social order, he will have to learn that in this, as in all other fields where essen.al complexity of an organized kind prevails, he cannot acquire the full knowledge which would make mastery of the events possible. He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the cra]sman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cul.vate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.