Archive: News
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Larry Downes: “The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars” (HBR)
Tuesday, December 6, 2016 Harvard Business Review Self-driving, autonomous vehicles — a topic of speculation, if not science fiction, just five years ago — are suddenly going mainstream. Be
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Larry Downes: “A new digital divide has emerged — and conventional solutions won’t bridge the gap” (Washington Post)
The Washington PostThough the United States has made profound progress in making Internet access universally available, a new digital divide has emerged that defies conventional solutions. Since
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Larry Downes: “U.S. Digital Infrastructure Needs More Private Investment” (HBR)
Harvard Business ReviewThere’s an urgent need to invest in America’s crumbling infrastructure. Even our politicians agree on that. As anyone who has driven a car, ridden a train, turned on the ta
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Kovacs releases policy paper: “Business Data Services: The Potential Harm to Competitive Facilities Deployment”
Visiting Senior Policy Scholar Anna-Maria Kovacs today released a paper, "Business data services: The potential harm to competitive facilities deployment." Kovacs finds that FCC- mandated price c
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Hahn releases paper: “Using Big Data to Estimate Consumer Surplus: The Case of Uber”
Senior Policy Scholar Robert Hahn today released a co-authored paper, “Using Big Data to Estimate Consumer Surplus: The Case of Uber.” The authors rely on Uber’s “surge” pricing algorithm and the
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Jensen, Quinn, and Weymouth issue policy paper: “Winners and Losers in International Trade: Effects on U.S. Presidential Voting”
Senior Policy Scholar J. Bradford Jensen and Faculty Affiliates Dennis Quinn and Stephen Weymouth recently issued a paper, “Winners and Losers in International Trade: Effects on U.S. Presidential
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Scott Wallsten named President of the Technology Policy Institute
Senior Policy Scholar Scott Wallsten was named President of the Technology Policy Institute, effective September 1, 2016. Scott formerly served as the Institute's Vice President for Research and
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Catherine Tinsley: “Women & Girls in Sports: When will we accept the new normal?” (Huffington Post)
Why do our cultural images lag? And what effect might this have on our girls? They return from their games sweaty, proud, and fueled with strength only to be bombarded with images contradicting w
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Larry Downes: “Why treating the Internet as a public utility is bad for consumers” (Washington Post)
Open Internet advocates celebrated long and loud in June when a federal court upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s “net neutrality” rules that prohibit broadband-access providers from b
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Railroad Economics at the Western Economic Association International Annual Meeting
traveling with train On July 1, 2016, Professor John Mayo chaired a session on railroad economics for the Transportation and Public Utilities Group at the 91st Annual Conference of the Western Eco
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