Vernon Smith, professor at George Mason and a 2002 Nobel laureate in economics, writes:

Many foreign countries–the U.K., Chile, Australia and New Zealand–have managed to liberalize electricity systems. There are no regrets in spite of mistakes, backsliding and learning bumps. Liberalization occurred because both U.S.-style regulation and foreign nationalization programs were judged serious failures.

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