Junk mail

When your working hours are filled with questions relating to introducing market forces in the (long term) care sector (a free market, auctions or yardstick competition?) or figuring out the optimal level of product transparency for consumers in health care markets, you get junk mail like this:
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Friday, December 08, 2006 3:40:36 PM
Paardenkooper-Suli, Klara
To:

Subject:
Privatisation and Regulation Symposium - Call for Papers
CALL FOR PAPERS

Symposium EAEPE and PRESOM / EU on

Privatisation and Regulation
On the co-evolution of Technology, Policy and Institutions.

Date: 22 and 23 March 2007
Place: Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Deadline abstracts (500 words): 15 January 2007
Submissions to: John Groenewegen

Fee: 100 € (including registration, lunches, coffee and tea)
Detailed information: www.eaepe.org and www.presom.eu
Theme:
Transactions in infrastructures used to be centrally coordinated by ministries and vertically integrated state owned firms. Liberalisation and privatisation created markets and fundamentally changed the modes of governance of the transactions with the aim to increase efficiency. When firms are privatised in network sectors like energy, telecom, water, public transport, and the like, regulation is introduced in order to safeguard the public interest (universal service, affordable prices, etc.)
Central questions:
What has been the performance of the network sectors after the liberalisation and privatisation with respect to the technological integrity of the systems (unbundling and segmentation have implications for the technological performance of the system), the economics (the allocative as well as the dynamic efficiencies) and last but not least the social impact (universal service, security of supply, labour conditions)?
Abstracts are invited not only on the traditional sectors of telecom, energy and public transport, but also on water, social security, financial markets and education.
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Sounds intellectual doesn't it?