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The Politics Of Competition: Review Of Clifford Winston's Government Failure Versus Market Failure: Microeconomics Policy Research And Government Performance And Mark K. Landy, Martin A. Levin & Martin Shapiro, Eds., Creating Competitive Markets: The Politics Of Regulatory Reform, Russell P. Hanser

Federal Communications Law Journal

Two recent books focus attention on the role of regulation in the modem economy and the reasons why efforts at deregulation succeed or fail. Clifford Winston's Government Failure Versus Market Failure: Microeconomics Policy Research and Government Performance reviews empirical studies of regulation and its alternatives, arguing that economic regulation has quite often done more harm than good. In Creating Competitive Markets: The Politics of Regulatory Reform, editors Mark K. Landy, Martin A. Levin and Martin Shapiro collect essays addressing the political dangers faced by those pursuing market liberalization, both before and (especially) after reform is enacted. Read together, these books …

Carl Ramey's Mass Media Unleashed, Henry Geller

Federal Communications Law Journal

Book Review: Carl R. Ramey, Mass Media Unleashed: How Washington Policy Makers Shortchanged the American Public (2007).

This superb book treats an important issue: the proper regulatory policy for broadcasting in the twenty-first century. In it, Carl Ramey critiques the Federal Communications Commission's public trustee and deregulatory market policies and suggests that to meet the dynamic market and technological changes of this new century we should, among other things, free commercial broadcasters completely from public trustee requirements and eliminate FCC enforcement of its ownership and related rules. Based on the long experience of a communications lawyer who knows so well …

Summing Up The Public Interest: A Review Of "Media Diversity And Localism: Meaning And Metrics," Edited By Philip M. Napoli, Victoria F. Phillips

Federal Communications Law Journal

Philip Napoli's Media Diversity and Localism: Meaning and Metrics, is a thoughtful and first of its kind compilation of some of the ongoing research and scholarship examining the concepts of diversity and localism underlying the Federal Communications Commission's public interest standard in broadcasting. The collection of essays addresses these fundamental goals from a variety of disciplines beyond the law, including political science, communications policy, sociology, and economics. The essays explore the values associated with these two goals, apply performance metrics to assess existing regulatory policies intended to preserve and promote these goals, and reflect on their meaning in the new …

Analyzing The World Bank's Blueprint For Promoting "Information And Communications", Sherille Ismail

Federal Communications Law Journal

Book Review: Information and Communications for Development 2006: Global Trends and Policies, issued by the World Bank.

This Review provides a summary and brief analysis of foreign private investment, the book's blueprint for reform, and how investments have fared in promoting economic growth and reducing poverty. The book is a valuable asset for governments, scholars, investors, and the international community seeking to serve end users in developing countries.

Digital Crossroads, Kathleen Wallman

Federal Communications Law Journal

Book Review: Digital Crossroads: American Telecommunications Policy in the Internet Age, Jonathan E. Nuechterlein & Philip J. Weiser, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2005, 670 pages.

A review of Digital Crossroads: American Telecommunications Policy in the Internet Age, by Jonathan E. Nuechterlein and Philip J. Weiser, MIT Press, 2005. Most practitioners of communications law are familiar with the necessity of teaching themselves enough economics, engineering, and politics to practice competently and comfortably in an area that is inherently interdisciplinary. Likewise, many professors who teach telecommunications from a variety of disciplinary perspectives are familiar with the frustration of locating a text that …

Looking Beyond The Digital Divide, Yolanda D. Edwards

Federal Communications Law Journal

Book Review: Digital Nation: Toward an Inclusive Information Society, Anthony G. Wilhelm, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2004, 184 pages.

A review of Anthony G. Wilhelm's Digital Nation: Toward an Inclusive Information Society, MIT Press, 2004. An important attempt to frame the debate about the importance of technological literacy, this book explores world-wide successes and failures to bring technology to the masses and provides a plan to accomplish it in the United States.

A Losing Battle For All Sides: The Sad State Of Spectrum Management, Gregory L. Rosston

Federal Communications Law Journal

Spectrum Wars: The Policy and Technology Debate, Jennifer A. Manner, Boston: Artech House, 2003, 186 pages.

A review of Spectrum Wars: The Policy and Technology Debate by Jennifer A. Manner. In this 2003 publication, the author goes a level further than most spectrum analyses do, by attempting to integrate the complex relationship between domestic spectrum policy and international spectrum concerns. Spectrum Wars can be divided into three major parts: a deep background of the institutional detail of the frequency management process, a description of the tensions between different theories on how to change spectrum management, and finally, a view about …

Book Review, J.O. Haley's Antitrust In Germany And Japan, The First Fifty Years, 1947-1998, David J. Gerber

All Faculty Scholarship

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Comparative Analysis Of Telecommunications Regulations: Pitfalls And Opportunities, Mary Newcomer Williams

Federal Communications Law Journal

Book Review: Controlling Market Power in Telecommunications: Antitrust vs. Sector-specific Regulation by Damien Geradin and Michel Kerf.

In this 2003 publication, the authors comprehensively review and analyze the telecommunications regulatory structure of five nations that have achieved some success in promoting competition in telecommunications markets. The authors engage in this analysis in order to evaluate the use of telecommunications sector-specific regulation versus more general, economywide antitrust regulation to accomplish specific goals related to promoting competition and efficiency in the provision of telecommunications services. This review describes the authors’ analysis and highlights its strengths and limitations. It also offers a few …

Public Television Law Réduit, Herbert A. Terry

Federal Communications Law Journal

Book Review: The Public Television Legal Survival Guide, 2d ed., Association of Public Television Stations, 2001, 254 pages.

A review of The Public Television Legal Survival Guide, 2nd ed., Association of Public Television Stations, 2001. According to its preface, the book is intended for "station personnel who do not have legal training" but who need to know some of the basics for their daily work and, through footnotes, to assist "in-house station counsel and outside legal consultants." For the most part, this book fulfills that promise. Privately published by the Association of Public Television Stations (APTS) in Washington, D.C. and …

Book Review, G.B. Doern & S. Wilks Eds., Comparative Competition Policy: National Institutions In A Global Market (1996), David J. Gerber

All Faculty Scholarship

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Whither To Regulate?, Patrick A. Miles Jr.

Federal Communications Law Journal

Book Review: Public Policy Toward Cable Television: The Economics of Rate Controls, by Thomas W. Hazlett and Matthew L. Spitzer, The MIT Press and The AEI Press, 1997, 253 pages.

Whither Unregulated Access Competition?, Clayton C. Miller

Federal Communications Law Journal

Book Review: Universal Service: Competition, Interconnection, and Monopoly in the Making of the American Telephone System, by Milton L. Mueller, Jr., MIT Press and AEI Press, 1997, 191 pages.

An Antitrust Primer, By Earl W. Kintner, Daniel J. Baum

Indiana Law Journal

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The Great Price Conspiracy, By John Herling, William H. Andrews

Indiana Law Journal

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Workable Competition And Antitrust Policy, By George F. Stocking; Competition As A Dynamic Process, By Maurice Clark; Competition And Monopoly, By Mark S. Massel, Ralph F. Fuchs

Indiana Law Journal

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The Antitrust Laws Of The United States Of America, By A.D. Neale, Thomas W. Christopher

Indiana Law Journal

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Antitrust Policies: American Experience In Twenty Industries, By Simon N. Whitney, Samuel M. Loescher

Indiana Law Journal

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Monopoly In America, By Walter Adams And Horace M. Gray, Phil C. Neal

Indiana Law Journal

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The Federal Antitrust Policy: Origination Of An American Tradition, By Hans B. Thorelli, Richard Cosway

Indiana Law Journal

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The Structure Of American Industry, Edited By Walter Adams, Norman Bursler

Indiana Law Journal

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The Basing Point System, By Fritz Machlup, Walter Adams

Indiana Law Journal

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Cartels Or Competition? The Economics Of International Controls By Business And Government, By George W. Stocking And Myron W. Watkins, Theodore J. Kreps

Indiana Law Journal

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A National Policy For The Oil Industry, By Eugene V. Rostow, Philip B. Kurland

Indiana Law Journal

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Comparative Charts Of State Statutes Illustrating Barriers To Trade Between States

Indiana Law Journal

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Barriers To Internal Trade In Farm Products, By George R. Taylor, Edgar L. Burtis, And Frederick V. Waugh

Indiana Law Journal

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Public Utility Service And Discrimination, Charles S. Hyneman

Indiana Law Journal

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Trade Associations: Their Legal Aspects, By Benjamin S. Kirsh, G. R. Redding

Indiana Law Journal

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