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Broadband in Every Pot?

April 19th, 2011

Economists Greg Rosston and Scott Wallsten argue that the FCC should take the cash now collected from everybody’s phone bills to extend voice service to poor people and remote areas, and redirect the money to high-speed Internet service (read broadband). They recommend experimenting to see which approaches to …

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Broadband in Every Pot?

February 11th, 2011

In the United States, it usually isn’t hard to find a phone: there are 286 million mobile handsets and 141 million landlines in service — 137 phones for every 100 Americans. Nonetheless, Congress sees fit to tax users close to $9 billion annually to provide access to those who might …

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Pennies From Heaven

October 16th, 2010

Those of you who actually read your phone bills (can’t say we’re among them) may have noticed a line item labeled “universal service charge.” The amount doesn’t amount to much: a small percentage of long-distance changes that come to a dollar or two per month, at most. But multiply the …

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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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