Internet Policy And Economics

For over a decade, William Lehr, Lorenzo Pupillo, and their colleagues in academia, industry, and policy have been on the electronic frontier, exploring the implications of the technologies that are revolutionizing communication and culture. In 2002, Cyber Policy and Economics in an Internet Age featured essays that focused on such emerging economic and policy-related issues of universal access, appropriate content, spectrum allocation, taxation, consumer protection, and regulation, with respect to the Internet.

Gary Madden was a renaissance man with respect to the nexus between information and communications technology (ICT) and economics. He contributed to a variety of fields in ICT: applied econometrics, forecasting, internet governance and policy. This series of essays, two of which were co-authored by Professor Madden prior to his untimely death, cover the range of his research interests.

Gain an understanding of how finance and economics work today, and how the convergence of various technologies related to the financial sector can help you find solutions to problems, such as excessive debt creation, banks getting too big to fail, and shadow banking. This book offers sensible alternatives to outdated and incorrect dogmas, such as the efficient markets hypothesis and rational expectations theory.

In Ruling the Root, Milton Mueller uses the theoretical framework of institutional economics to analyze the global policy and …