06
June 2017
Past Event
Political Spectrum: The Next Chapter

Political Spectrum: The Next Chapter

Past Event
91ÆÞÓÑ Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
June 06, 2017
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06
June 2017
Past Event

1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 400
Washington, DC 20004

Speakers:
Thomas Hazlett

H.H. Macaulay Endowed Chair in Economics, Clemson University and author of The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone

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Harold Furchtgott-Roth

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for the Economics of the Internet

Spectrum has become the currency of the Internet Age. As high tech businesses jockey for position to offer new wireless services based on new applications of spectrum, many questions remain unanswered about the role of the federal government in managing this resource.

How, if at all, should the federal government be involved in administering spectrum? How are the politics of spectrum influencing the net neutrality debate? How can spectrum be endowed with greater property rights? How does spectrum policy affect the ability of American businesses to compete internationally?

On June 6, Professor Thomas Hazlett, former chief economist of the Federal Communications Commission and author of __The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone, addressed these questions and more. The Political Spectrum__ is the definitive history of the regulation of spectrum in the United States. Prof. Hazlett and 91ÆÞÓÑ Institute Senior Fellow Harold Furchtgott-Roth conducted a sweeping discussion on spectrum policy, deregulation, and the new direction of the FCC.

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