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Is Free TV for Federal Candidates Constitutional?
By Lillian BeVier
Posted: Saturday, January 1, 2000

If some members of Congress and the Federal Communications Commission have their way, they will mandate free television for federal candidates. [Read More]

Deregulatory Takings and the Regulatory Contract
The Competitive Transformation of Network Industries in the United States
By J. Gregory Sidak, Daniel F. Spulber
Posted: Saturday, January 1, 2000

This book addresses deregulatory policies that threaten to reduce the value of private property in network industries without any accompanying payment of just compensation. [Read More]

Public Policy toward Cable Television
The Economics of Rate Controls
By Thomas W. Hazlett, Matthew L. Spitzer
Posted: Saturday, January 1, 2000

This book analyzes the effectiveness of the federal government's vacillating regulatory policy toward the cable television industry. [Read More]

Foreign Investment in American Telecommunications
By J. Gregory Sidak
Posted: Saturday, January 1, 2000

Restrictions on foreign investment in U.S. telecommunications firms have harmed the interests of American consumers and investors, argues J. Gregory Sidak in this convincing study. [Read More]

The Third Industrial Revolution
By Jeremy Greenwood
Posted: Saturday, January 1, 2000

The author explores periods of rapid technological change for coincidences of widening inequality and slowing productivity growth. [Read More]

Vertical Integration in Cable Television
The Economics of Rate Controls
By David Waterman, Andrew Weiss
Posted: Saturday, January 1, 2000

The authors address claims that vertical ownership ties reduce programming diversity, restrict entry of competitors to cable, or have other socially undesirable effects. [Read More]

Universal Service
Competition, Interconnection, and Monopoly in the Making of the American Telephone System
By Milton L. Mueller
Posted: Saturday, January 1, 2000

This book revisits the critical period of unbridled competition between the Bell System and independent telephone companies early in this century. [Read More]

The Advanced Technology Program
A Case Study in Federal Technology Policy
By Rachel Schmidt, Loren Yager
Posted: Saturday, January 1, 2000

The authors review the economic rationales of the Commerce Department's Advanced Technology Program and the criteria for project selection. [Read More]

Science for the Twenty-first Century
The Bush Report Revisited
Edited by Claude Barfield
Posted: Saturday, January 1, 2000

In America's quest for advanced technology and the creation of high-tech jobs, what role should the federal government play? [Read More]

Designing Incentive Regulation for the Telecommunications Industry
By David E. M. Sappington
Posted: Saturday, January 1, 2000

This book applies new advances in economic theory regarding the asymmetry of information between firms and their regulators to the design of improved telecommunications regulation. [Read More]

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