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| Dimensions: 5.5'' x 8.75'' |
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| 41 pages |
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AEI Press
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| Publication Date: January 1998 |
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| ISBN: 084477121X |
| Price: $ 9.95 |
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The full text of this book is available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format
As a result of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Congress directed the Federal Communications Commission to subsidize Internet services to schools and libraries in the United States. In this book, Jerry Hausman calculates the deadweight loss caused by the extremely inefficient method of taxation that the FCC has employed and describes an alternative method that would cause virtually no efficiency loss.
Jerry Hausman is the MacDonald Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Table of Contents
Foreword: Christopher DeMuth and Harold Furchtgott-Roth
Introduction
Regulation of U.S. Telecommunications
Studies of Telephone Demand
Estimation of Economic Efficiency Losses
Did the FCC Maximize the Efficiency Loss?
Conclusions
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Notes
References
About the Author
