The world is an amazing place. You can sit in a Starbucks in Malibu while I’m sipping tomato soup at a Pret a Manger in London, and we chat for free using Skype or Viber or Rebtel. Or how ‘bout this one: You can pull a smartphone out of your …
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By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: AT&T, FCC, Ronald Coase, Spectrum, Verizon | Category: Telecommunications Regulation |
 Leave a commentVerizon, America’s largest wireless network, pulled a rabbit out of its corporate hat last month, announcing a multi-billion dollar deal to buy spectrum from cable-TV giants Comcast and Time Warner and the smaller, Syracuse, NY-based Bright House Networks. Sound familiar? AT&T, number two in wireless, made a similarly surprising move … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: AT&T, Ronald Coase, Spectrum, Verizon | Category: Telecommunications Regulation |
Leave a commentIt may be spring for most Egyptians, but this is definitely former Egyptian president Mubarak’s winter of discontent: the deposed dictator and his two sons will face murder charges. We certainly sympathize with Egypt’s determination to hold them accountable; still we wonder whether the precedent is good for … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Arab Spring, Hosni Mubarak, Ronald Coase | Category: Economic Theory |
Leave a commentWe think (as does virtually everybody else) that Google is a fantastic company, a force for innovation that has generated enormous benefits for Internet users even as it earned a ton of money for shareholders. But we don’t think Google is some sort of saint of capitalism–a firm that can … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Eric Schmidt, Facebook, Google, Ronald Coase | Category: Telecommunications Regulation |
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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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