AN APPROACH TO RENEGOTIATION.
Abstract In support of the theory of renegotiation, the author has mentioned a concept which was not developed last year. It has been a great many years since the theory was developed that the government had the right to regulate and fix the prices of services of public utilities, that is,of businesses which are vested with a public interest. Under that theory, innkeepers and common carriers were regulated a century and a half ago. More recently, the railroad, electric, gas, telephone, telegraph, warehouse, bus and other businesses have been regulated. In wartime, there is virtually a state of monopoly because the government needs everybody's services so badly that competition does not exist. It needs the product of every plant and must have it at whatever price. Certainly the government and the well-being of the public are sufficiently dependent upon the results of the production of war material that it cannot be said that such production is not vested with a public interest. The Revenue Act of 1943, after four rather complete and comprehensive Congressional investigations of renegotiation, substantially amended the Renegotiation. Act.
- DOI
- 10.2308/tar-7036874
- Volume
- 19 (3)
- Pages
- 238-247
- Language
- en
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