Federal law tries to have it both ways, allowing the cable companies to own cable channels, but barring them from discriminating against rival channels. Trouble is, this puts the FCC in the position of calling balls and strikes on what constitutes discrimination. And the commission’s decision last year to reverse …
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By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: anti-discrimination rules, FCC, Robert Litan, Time Warner | Category: Quick Takes, Telecommunications Regulation |
 Leave a commentBob Litan (Kauffman Foundation) and Hal Singer (Navigant Economics) offer a clear, concise explanation of net neutrality – and why priority-use deals should be presumed pro-competitive until proven otherwise. Reading it, you gotta wonder why centrists in the Obama Administration … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Hal Singer, network neutrality, Robert Litan | Category: Quick Takes, Telecommunications Regulation |
Leave a commentRobert Litan’s working paper on what financial innovation hath wrought is a must read. [Download Here] He set out to determine whether the radical changes in the way financial markets function over the past half-century deserve the bad rap … Apologies to Tina Turner. But, yes, like the chair of the FCC (see our Jan. 12th post), we believe that discrimination does have a lot to do with the net neutrality debate. That agreement, though, is the beginning of the debate, not the end, because there is hardly a … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Dennis Carlton, FCC, Gary Becker, Google, Hal Singer, Net Neutrality, Nicholas Economides, Robert Litan, telecommunications policy, Verizon | Category: Net Neutrality |
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Professor Dieter Helm (Oxford) is a very fine fly fisherman, and an even better economist. If you haven’t done so, take a look at his new book “The Carbon Crunch: How We Are Getting Climate Change Wrong — and How to Fix It” for a bit of unconventional wisdom. He argues that politicians and the general public have not shown any real interest in addressing climate change. Helm argues that places like Europe should focus on setting a price for carbon that would cover consumption (and not just production), and that fracking could be a good “bridge” technology for reducing consumption of coal. The book is readable and insightful for those interested in the inside track on climate policy. 
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