whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. The hazard of market dominance
(Analysis/Analysis)

...rcy of larger retailers or service providers. And let's mention again the power that both Telkom and Eskom have through the "delivery" of their services. When businesses compete against...

2. Netscape, the Internet and Creative Destruction
(Analysis/Analysis)

...sing the Internet. It is state ownership of the infrastructure required to access it that does it. The Eskoms of the world are not accidents. They happen because governments refuse to trust that a ...

3. Electricity Redux - Electricity Quotas Will Work About As Well As Race Quotas
(Analysis/Analysis)

...having to bear higher electricity prices, consumers had to deal with no electricity at all. Now we have Eskom. Almost 4 million homes and businesses depend on Eskom for electricity. Eskom is largel...

4. This festive season: the accumulating effects of individual activity
(Analysis/Analysis)

...athing, and watching television. In small family groups. Given that South African electricity monopoly, Eskom, hasn't invested in their network for thirty years these effects are important since ...

5. Investment cannot happen if the market isn't private
(Analysis/Analysis)

...industry is highly regulated. No competitors are invited to challenge the sterling services provided by Eskom (thanks for the power-failures last week) or Telkom (thanks for the phone-line-error) or ...

6. Cricket, corruption and the match-fixing that leads to murder
(Analysis/Analysis)

... and incompetence prevails.  There is one electricity provider in South Africa, the state-protected Eskom. With no real competition to focus business strategy, most daily attention is aimed at in...

7. What do toilet paper and state monopolies have in common?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...tness the furore in Germany when Russia cut off their gas supplies during a dispute with Belarus.  Eskom, the South African state energy supplier, is suffering the indignity of demand that is &...