{"title":"基础设施如何成为一个投资领域","authors":"P. O’Neill","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2755179","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In the past forty years infrastructure provision and operation in advanced nations have been transformed from a sector dominated by state-owned utilities into one characterised by a growing presence of private capital and diverse non-state organisational structures. The chapter shows how these changes not only affect the ways infrastructure steers economic relations within cities, but re-constitutes urban governance in surprising ways.The chapter then explores the theoretical challenges which these trends bring to economic geography. On one hand – when we look to economics – there is growing redundancy of the historical taxonomy of infrastructure and the idea of infrastructure as a public good. One the other – when we look to geography – there is normative obsession with the idea of the state-run utilities system as if no other form of infrastructure provision is capable of generating just and sustainable urban outcomes.The chapter draws eclectically on economic sources to build a functional model of infrastructure analysis as a way forward, an approach that brings together capital, organisational and regulatory structures into a single frame, and demonstrates the theoretical and policy power of such an approach.","PeriodicalId":108610,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Infrastructure (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"How Infrastructure Became an Investment Sector\",\"authors\":\"P. O’Neill\",\"doi\":\"10.2139/ssrn.2755179\",\"DOIUrl\":null,\"url\":null,\"abstract\":\"In the past forty years infrastructure provision and operation in advanced nations have been transformed from a sector dominated by state-owned utilities into one characterised by a growing presence of private capital and diverse non-state organisational structures. The chapter shows how these changes not only affect the ways infrastructure steers economic relations within cities, but re-constitutes urban governance in surprising ways.The chapter then explores the theoretical challenges which these trends bring to economic geography. On one hand – when we look to economics – there is growing redundancy of the historical taxonomy of infrastructure and the idea of infrastructure as a public good. One the other – when we look to geography – there is normative obsession with the idea of the state-run utilities system as if no other form of infrastructure provision is capable of generating just and sustainable urban outcomes.The chapter draws eclectically on economic sources to build a functional model of infrastructure analysis as a way forward, an approach that brings together capital, organisational and regulatory structures into a single frame, and demonstrates the theoretical and policy power of such an approach.\",\"PeriodicalId\":108610,\"journal\":{\"name\":\"PSN: Infrastructure (Topic)\",\"volume\":\"1 1\",\"pages\":\"0\"},\"PeriodicalIF\":0.0000,\"publicationDate\":\"2016-03-27\",\"publicationTypes\":\"Journal Article\",\"fieldsOfStudy\":null,\"isOpenAccess\":false,\"openAccessPdf\":\"\",\"citationCount\":\"3\",\"resultStr\":null,\"platform\":\"Semanticscholar\",\"paperid\":null,\"PeriodicalName\":\"PSN: Infrastructure (Topic)\",\"FirstCategoryId\":\"1085\",\"ListUrlMain\":\"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2755179\",\"RegionNum\":0,\"RegionCategory\":null,\"ArticlePicture\":[],\"TitleCN\":null,\"AbstractTextCN\":null,\"PMCID\":null,\"EPubDate\":\"\",\"PubModel\":\"\",\"JCR\":\"\",\"JCRName\":\"\",\"Score\":null,\"Total\":0}","platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"PSN: Infrastructure (Topic)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2755179","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
In the past forty years infrastructure provision and operation in advanced nations have been transformed from a sector dominated by state-owned utilities into one characterised by a growing presence of private capital and diverse non-state organisational structures. The chapter shows how these changes not only affect the ways infrastructure steers economic relations within cities, but re-constitutes urban governance in surprising ways.The chapter then explores the theoretical challenges which these trends bring to economic geography. On one hand – when we look to economics – there is growing redundancy of the historical taxonomy of infrastructure and the idea of infrastructure as a public good. One the other – when we look to geography – there is normative obsession with the idea of the state-run utilities system as if no other form of infrastructure provision is capable of generating just and sustainable urban outcomes.The chapter draws eclectically on economic sources to build a functional model of infrastructure analysis as a way forward, an approach that brings together capital, organisational and regulatory structures into a single frame, and demonstrates the theoretical and policy power of such an approach.