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Broadband Puzzle

April 5th, 2010

Barbara Esbin of The Progress & Freedom Foundation (don’t let the name throw you…) offers a nice critique of the FCC’s much-heralded broadband plan, arguing there is a disconnect between the agency’s celebration of market-driven innovation on the one hand and call for more regulation on the other. It’s also a pretty good CliffsNotes for the plan for the lazy or overworked among us who lack the time to plow through all 376 pages of the real thing.

For an assistant professor (American University’s School of International Service) three years out of graduate school (Princeton), Jeff Colgan is making quite a splash. As a scholar working at the nexus between economics and political science, he’s specialized in analyzing the links between petroleum and international conflict. His new book, Petro-Aggression, explores the question of why some oil-fueled regimes stir the geopolitical pot (think Iran, Venezuela) while others are quite conservative (Saudi Arabia). But we’re most taken with his working paper on OPEC, in which he argues that the cartel (as opposed to individual cartel members) is toothless.

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