Thomas Hazlett
American economist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Thomas W. Hazlett is the Hugh H. Macaulay Endowed Professor of Economics in the John E. Walker Department of Economics at Clemson University where he also directs the Information Economy Project. Hazlett's essays have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Economist, The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, and Time. He was a New Technology Policy Forum columnist for the Financial Times, 2002–11, and wrote the "Selected Skirmishes" column for magazine . He is a founding partner of the consulting firm, Arlington Economics, with economists David Porter and Vernon L. Smith. He serves as a Director of the Telecommunications Research Policy Conference, and is a member of the editorial boards of INFO, Telecommunications Policy, and the Supreme Court Economic Review. Hazlett is the author of several books, most recently releasing The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone in May 2017. A Wall Street Journal review called the ideas presented in the book "reason for cautious optimism about our wireless future."
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Published Works
- Assigning Property Rights to Radio Spectrum Users: Why Did Fcc License Auctions Take 67 Years?* (1998) (171)
- A Welfare Analysis of Spectrum Allocation Policies (2008) (129)
- The Wireless Craze, the Unlimited Bandwidth Myth, the Spectrum Auction Faux Pas, and the Punchline to Ronald Coase's "Big Joke": An Essay on Airwave Allocation Policy (2001) (126)
- The Rationality of U.S. Regulation of the Broadcast Spectrum in the 1934 Communications Act (1990) (121)
- Promoting Efficient Use of Spectrum Through Elimination of Barriers to the Development of Secondary Markets (2001) (118)
- Dos Kapital: Has Antitrust Action Against Microsoft Created Value in the Computer Industry? (1998) (117)
- Radio Spectrum and the Disruptive Clarity of Ronald Coase (2010) (72)
- The Cost of Rent-Seeking: Evidence from Cellular Telephone License Lotteries (1993) (66)
- Property Rights and Wireless License Values (2004) (53)
- Rivalrous Telecommunications Networks with and Without Mandatory Sharing (2005) (48)
- Optimal Abolition of FCC Spectrum Allocation (2008) (48)
- Economic and Political Consequences of the 1996 Telecommunications Act (1999) (35)
- What Really Matters in Spectrum Allocation Design (2011) (34)
- AEI-Brookings Joint Center Working Paper (2007) (34)
- Property Rights to Radio Spectrum in Guatemala and El Salvador: An Experiment in Liberalization (2006) (33)
- THE LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE SHERMAN ACT RE‐EXAMINED (1992) (32)
- Spectrum Flash Dance: Eli Noam's Proposal for “Open Access” to Radio Waves (1998) (29)
- Public Policy toward Cable Television: The Economics of Rate Controls (1997) (29)
- COMPETITION VS. FRANCHISE MONOPOLY IN CABLE TELEVISION (1986) (29)
- Liberalizing US spectrum allocation (2003) (27)
- Was The Fairness Doctrine A “Chilling Effect”? Evidence from the Postderegulation Radio Market (1997) (26)
- The Spectrum-Allocation Debate: An Analysis (2006) (26)
- Spectrum Allocation in Latin America: An Economic Analysis (2006) (25)
- The Law and Economics of Network Neutrality (2011) (24)
- The Demand to Regulate Franchise Monopoly: Evidence from CATV Rate Deregulation in California (1991) (23)
- Digital Television and the Quid Pro Quo (2000) (23)
- The Political Economy of Cable 'Open Access' (2001) (22)
- Private Monopoly and the Public Interest: An Economic Analysis of the Cable Television Franchise (1986) (21)
- Duopolistic Competition in Cable Television: Implications for Public Policy (1990) (20)
- ''Open access:'' the ideal and the real (2002) (20)
- Economists' Statement on Network Neutrality Policy (2007) (19)
- Physical Scarcity, Rent Seeking, and the First Amendment. (1997) (19)
- The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone (2017) (19)
- Economic Origins Of Apartheid (1988) (19)
- Advanced wireless technologies and public policy (2006) (18)
- Walled Garden Rivalry: The Creation of Mobile Network Ecosystems (2011) (18)
- Natural Experiments in U.S. Broadband Regulation (2008) (17)
- A LAW & ECONOMICS APPROACH TO SPECTRUM PROPERTY RIGHTS : A RESPONSE TO WEISER AND HATFIELD (2008) (17)
- Public Policy toward Cable Television (1997) (17)
- The Effect of Regulation on Broadband Markets: Evaluating the Empirical Evidence in the FCC’s 2015 “Open Internet” Order (2017) (16)
- Is Federal Preemption Efficient in Cellular Phone Regulation (2003) (15)
- Telecommunications Policy Reform in the United States and Canada (2000) (14)
- The Case for Liberal Spectrum Licenses: A Technical and Economic Perspective (2010) (14)
- Prices and Outputs Under Cable TV Reregulation (1997) (12)
- Cable Television Rate Deregulation (1996) (12)
- Legislators v. Regulators: The Case of Low Power FM Radio (2002) (12)
- Comments of 71 Concerned Economists: Using Procurement Auctions to Allocate Broadband Stimulus Grants (2009) (12)
- The Arbitrage Mirage: Regulated Access Prices with Free Entry in Local Telecommunications Markets (2003) (11)
- Predation in Local Cable TV Markets (1995) (10)
- Use of Designated Entity Preferences in Assigning Wireless Licenses (1999) (10)
- Modular Confines of Mobile Networks: Are iPhones iPhony? (2009) (10)
- The social value of TV band spectrum in European countries (2006) (10)
- "Chilling" the Internet? Lessons from FCC Regulation of Radio Broadcasting (1998) (10)
- The U.S. Digital TV Transition: Time to Toss the Negroponte Switch (2001) (10)
- The Fallacy of Regulatory Symmetry: An Economic Analysis of the 'Level Playing Field' in Cable TV Franchising Statutes (2001) (9)
- The Effects of Rate Regulation on Mean Returns and Non-Diversifiable Risk: The Case of Cable Television (2001) (9)
- Valuing Spectrum Allocations (2016) (9)
- Exactitude in Defining Rights: Radio Spectrum and the 'Harmful Interference' Conundrum (2012) (9)
- Shedding Tiers for a La Carte? An Economic Analysis of Cable TV Pricing (2006) (7)
- Economists' Statement on U.S. Broadband Policy (2006) (7)
- Efficient Spectrum Reallocation with Hold-Ups and Without Nirvana (2014) (7)
- The educational impact of broadband subsidies for schools under E-rate (2016) (7)
- Natural Experiments in Mobile Phone Regulation: Estimated Effects of Prohibiting Handset Bundling in Finland and Belgium (2014) (6)
- The Law and Economics of Property Rights to Radio Spectrum: Introduction (1998) (6)
- Tragedy of the Regulatory Commons: Lightsquared and the Missing Spectrum Rights (2014) (6)
- Cable TV Franchises as Barriers to Video Competition (2006) (5)
- Trade in Ideas: Performance and Behavioral Properties of Markets in Patents (2011) (4)
- Digitizing "Must-Carry" under Turner Broadcasting v. FCC (1997) (2000) (4)
- U.S. Antitrust Policy in the Age of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Netflix and Facebook (2020) (4)
- Market Power in US Broadband Services (2011) (4)
- Tragedy T.V.: Rights Fragmentation and the Junk Band Problem (2010) (3)
- MOBILE PHONE REGULATION: THE EFFECTS OF PROHIBITING HANDSET BUNDLING IN FINLAND (2018) (3)
- Microsoft’s Internet Exploration: Predatory or Competitive (1999) (3)
- Occupational licensing and the transition from welfare to work (1998) (3)
- The policy of exclusive franchising in cable television (1987) (3)
- Understanding the Disruptive Innovation Wrought by Computers and the Internet: A Review (2016) (3)
- Market Power in U.S. Broadband Services (2009) (3)
- The Overly Active Corpse of Red Lion (2010) (3)
- Some Dynamics of High-Tech Merger Analysis in General and with Respect to XM-Sirius (2008) (3)
- Practical steps to spectrum markets (2003) (3)
- Oak Leaves and the origins of the 1927 Radio Act: Comment (1998) (2)
- Unrepentent Policy Failure: Universal Service Subsidies in Voice and Broadband (2013) (2)
- China and World Wheat Markets: Assessing Supply, Demand and Trade in China (2011) (1)
- The role of property rights in the positive theory of monopoly (1987) (1)
- The 1927 Radio Act as Pre-emption of Common Law Property Rights (2020) (1)
- Legal and Economic Aspects of the Microsoft Case: Antitrust in the Information Age (2000) (1)
- Rent-seeking in the telco/ cable cross-ownership controversy (1990) (1)
- THE ECONOMICS OF THE SATELLITE RADIO MERGER (2007) (1)
- Don’t Let Google Freeze the Airwaves (2008) (1)
- Introduction: The Radio Act of 1927 Turns 90 (2019) (1)
- Populist Antitrust: The Case of FTC v. Facebook (2023) (0)
- 11. Must Carry This, Shall Not Carry That (2020) (0)
- The Case for Liberal Spectrum Licenses: An Economic and Technical Analysis (2010) (0)
- Breaking up is bad to do (2000) (0)
- DUOPOLISTIC COMPETITION IN CATV: THEORY, PRACTICE, AND POLICY (1987) (0)
- Joint Submission of Antitrust Economists, Legal Scholars, and Practitioners to the House Judiciary Committee on the State of Antitrust Law and Implications for Protecting Competition in Digital Markets (2020) (0)
- Letter to Fcc Chairman Powell Concerning Auction 35 (2002) (0)
- The Rationality of U.S. Regulation of the Broadcast Spectrum in the 1934 Communications Act (2014) (0)
- Coase and Demsetz on property rights: the case of radio spectrum (2016) (0)
- Dim Bulbs: Blackouts are Rolling Through California, Why Not the Heads of State Regulators? (2001) (0)
- CATV: THE IMPACT OF DEREGULATION AND THE EMERGING TECHNOLOGY (1991) (0)
- Spectrum Rights in Outer Space: Interference Management for Mega-constellations (2022) (0)
- A Reply to Regulation and Competition in Cable Television (1990) (0)
- The Political Spectrum (2020) (0)
- "Natural Monopoly" As A Justification For Legal Monopoly In Catv (1987) (0)
- Taxing Entrepreneurs: Models and Reality (1989) (0)
- Antitrust in the Information Economy: Digital Platform Mergers (2022) (0)
- The Effect of Regulation on Broadband Markets: Evaluating the Empirical Evidence in the FCC’s 2015 “Open Internet” Order (2016) (0)
- The Dual Role of Property Rights in Protecting Broadcast Speech (1998) (0)
- Policy-Induced Competition: The Case of Cable TV Set-Top Boxes (2011) (0)
- Ronald Coase and the spectrum question (2007) (0)
- The Antitrust Terrible 10: Why the Most Reviled “Anti-competitive” Business Practices Can Benefit Consumers in the New Economy (2001) (0)
- Introduction: The Radio Act of 1927 Turns 90 (2019) (0)
- Professor Thomas Hazlett, on behalf of the Seniors Coalition, has been on a crusade to rid the US of waste (2006) (0)
- Free speech and the challenge of efficiency (2022) (0)
- The 1927 Radio Act as Pre-emption of Common Law Property Rights (2019) (0)
- Case of coastal piracy (1979) (0)
- REGULATION AND THE COMMUNICATIONS REVOLUTION:INTRODUCTION (1986) (0)
- Amicus Brief of Antitrust Law & Economics Scholars, Ohio v. American Express (2018) (0)
- GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW A WELFARE ANALYSIS OF SPECTRUM ALLOCATION POLICIES (2006) (0)
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