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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Roughly one out of every four children in the US does not have a computer with Internet access at home. At first take, you might assume those kids are operating at a big disadvantage. Not so, say academics Robert Fairlie … read more >

Economics, Taxes and Spending

2 good reasons for an internet sales tax

Abby McCloskey | April 22, 2013, 3:23 pm

As early as today, the Senate may vote to allow states to collect taxes on Internet sales. read more >

Economics

Productivity slowdown not the recession’s fault

Abby McCloskey | April 9, 2013, 9:29 am

Much can be blamed on the 2008 financial crisis: high unemployment, slow economic growth, restricted lending. Anemic productivity growth cannot. Productivity growth of US workers has been disappointingly low since 2004, averaging about 1.5% annually, well below the long-run average … read more >

Economics, Regulation

The truth about ‘free Wi-Fi’

Jeffrey Eisenach | February 4, 2013, 8:56 am

Today’s front page story in the Washington Post—provocatively headlined “Tech, telecom giants take sides as FCC proposes large public Wi-Fi networks”—will surely get a lot of attention. But there’s little cause for alarm: The story is almost entirely fiction. The … read more >

Society and Culture, Education

Massively open online courses could be the future of higher education–if they can figure out how to stop cheaters

KC Deane | January 15, 2013, 4:09 pm

Today, at the urging of the California governor, Udacity—a Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) provider, the hot new thing in higher education that offers free online courses by elite professors to students worldwide—and San Jose State University announced a partnership … read more >

Aaron Swartz at a Boston Wiki Meetup in August, 2009. Image Credit: Sage Ross (Flickr) (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Society and Culture, Media and Technology

Aaron Swartz: A tragic suicide, but his ‘hacktivism’ actually hurt the goals he claimed to promote

Jay Weiser | January 15, 2013, 11:23 am

It costs money to develop and deliver intellectual property, and JSTOR’s massive and ever-expanding database — widely accessible to academic researchers through universities and to the general public through public libraries — benefits society. read more >

Economics, Regulation

An Internet for the people: Reducing cronyism in broadband

Arthur C. Brooks | October 19, 2012, 10:17 am

In a new paper in the AEI Economic Studies series, visiting fellow Jeffrey Eisenach argues that broadband internet providers are operating under a regulatory policy that does little to help consumers and much to stifle innovation. read more >

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Economics, Regulation

Broadband competition in the internet ecosystem: A conflict of visions

Jeffrey Eisenach | October 18, 2012, 11:00 am

Are broadband networks part of the Internet ecosystem? If it seems like a silly question, you haven’t been paying attention to what passes for liberal thinking about the Internet these days. According to some—including Cardozo Law School professor and former … read more >

Foreign and Defense Policy, India

Shooting the messenger in India

Sadanand Dhume | August 22, 2012, 1:36 pm

There are many reasons to oppose India’s attempt to shackle the Internet. It deflects attention from the deeper issue. read more >

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