Research Catalog

Title

The Internet upheaval : raising questions, seeking answers in communications policy / edited by Ingo Vogelsang and Benjamin Compaine.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Vogelsang, Ingo.
• Compaine, Benjamin M.

Description

xxix, 426 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Internet service providers > Government policy > United States
• Internet > Government policy > United States
• Telecommunication policy > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Preface / Benjamin M. Compaine -- Introduction: Upheavals and More / Benjamin M. Compaine and Ingo Vogelsang -- 1. Will Tomorrow Be Free? Application of State Action Doctrine to Private Internet Providers / Irina Dmitrieva -- 2. In a World without Borders: The Impact of Taxes on Internet Commerce / Austan Goolsbee -- 3. Beyond Concern: Understanding Net Users' Attitudes about Online Privacy / Lorrie Faith Cranor, Joseph Reagle and Mark S. Ackerman -- 4. The Death of Cities? The Death of Distance? Evidence from the Geography of Commercial Internet Usage / Jed Kolko -- 5. Online Voting: Calculating Risks and Benefits to the Community and the Individual / Linda O. Valenty and James C. Brent -- 6. Telecommunications, the Internet, and the Cost of Capital / R. Glenn Hubbard and William Lehr -- 7. A Taxonomy of Communications Demand / Steven G. Lanning, Shawn R. O'Donnell and W. Russell Neuman --
• 8. Competitive Effects of Internet Peering Policies / Paul Milgrom, Bridger Mitchell and Padmanabhan Srinagesh -- 9. Media Mergers, Divestitures, and the Internet: Is It Time for a New Model for Interpreting Competition? / Benjamin M. Compaine -- 10. Open Architecture Approaches to Innovation / Douglas Lichtman -- 11. Empirical Evidence on Advanced Services at Commercial Internet Access Providers / Shane Greenstein -- 12. Pricing and Bundling Electronic Information Goods: Evidence from the Field / Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, Juan F. Riveros and Robert S. Gazzale -- 13. An Economist's Perspective on Universal Residential Service / Michael H. Riordan -- 14. Squaring the Circle: Rebalancing Tariffs While Promoting Universal Service / Geoffrey Myers -- 15. The Irony of Telecommunications Deregulation: Assessing the Role Reversal in U.S. and EU Policy / Barbara A. Cherry -- 16. Winners and Losers from the Universal Service Subsidy Battle / Bradley S. Wimmer and Gregory L. Rosston.

ISBN

0262220636 (alk. paper)

LCCN

00032920

OCLC

• 43971474
• ocm43971474
• SCSB-3997285

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Columbia University Libraries