This book analyzes the effectiveness of the federal government's vacillating regulatory policy toward the cable television industry.
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Thomas W. Hazlett is Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Director, Program on Telecommunications Policy, University of California at Davis. Matthew L. Spitzer is William T. Dalessi Professor of Law at The University of Southern California and Professor of Law and Social Science at The California Institute of Technology.
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Terrific information about the cable cartel.,
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This review is from: Public Policy toward Cable Television: The Economics of Rate Controls (Hardcover)
Dr. Hazlett explicates the dilemmas of free enterprise and government regulation, as they apply to the evil cable mafias, in this witty book. If you get cable tv, you should read this.
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Terrific information about the cable cartel.,
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This review is from: Public Policy toward Cable Television: The Economics of Rate Controls (Hardcover)
Dr. Hazlett explicates the dilemmas of free enterprise and government regulation, as they apply to the evil cable mafias, in this witty book. If you get cable tv, you should read this.
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THE EFFECTIVENESS of price regulation in constraining market power has been a subject of inquiry by economists for over three decades. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cable subscribership, cable rate regulation, cable reregulation, rate rollbacks, limited basic service, cable program services, regulated package, cable television rates, basic cable networks, basic cable rates, rate deregulation, deregulation period, cable programming services, cable deregulation, unregulated services, basic cable package, cable prices, basic cable service, cash flow margin, revenue per subscriber, basic subscribers, cable programmers, duopolistic competition, deregulated systems, franchising authorities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cable Act, Paul Kagan Associates, National Cable Television Association, Vincente Pasdeloup, Federal Communications Commission, Bell Atlantic, Reed Hundt, Marketing New Media, Time Warner, First Amendment, United States, General Accounting Office, Cable Services Bureau, Federal Trade Commission, New York Times, Paul Farhi, Alan Breznick, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Wall Street, Los Angeles, History Channel, Mark Robichaux, Antitrust Division, Bill Carter, Consumer Federation of America New!
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THE EFFECTIVENESS of price regulation in constraining market power has been a subject of inquiry by economists for over three decades. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cable subscribership, cable rate regulation, cable reregulation, rate rollbacks, limited basic service, cable program services, regulated package, cable television rates, basic cable networks, basic cable rates, rate deregulation, deregulation period, cable programming services, cable deregulation, unregulated services, basic cable package, cable prices, basic cable service, cash flow margin, revenue per subscriber, basic subscribers, cable programmers, duopolistic competition, deregulated systems, franchising authorities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cable Act, Paul Kagan Associates, National Cable Television Association, Vincente Pasdeloup, Federal Communications Commission, Bell Atlantic, Reed Hundt, Marketing New Media, Time Warner, First Amendment, United States, General Accounting Office, Cable Services Bureau, Federal Trade Commission, New York Times, Paul Farhi, Alan Breznick, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Wall Street, Los Angeles, History Channel, Mark Robichaux, Antitrust Division, Bill Carter, Consumer Federation of America New!
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- Regulating Broadcast Programming (AEI Studies in Telecommunications Deregulation) by Thomas G. Krattenmaker in Front Matter, page 189, and Back Matter
- Toward Competition in Cable Television (AEI Studies in Telecommunications Deregulation) by William J. Baumol in Front Matter, page 29, and Back Matter
- The Economics of Regulation: Principles and Institutions by Alfred E. Kahn on page 43, and Back Matter
- Video Economics by Bruce Owen on page 8, and Back Matter
- The Economics of Welfare (Classics in Economics) by Arthur Cecil Pigou on page 41, and Back Matter
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- Cutthroat: High Stakes & Killer Moves on the Electronic Frontier by Stephen Keating in Back Matter
- Reviving Regulatory Reform by Robert W. Hahn in Back Matter
- The Role of Competition and Regulation in Today's Cable TV Market by Thomas Duesterberg in Back Matter
- International Trade in Telecommunications (Aei Studies in Telecommunications Deregulation) by Ronald A. Cass in Front Matter
- Switching Channels: Organization and Change in TV Broadcasting by Richard E. Caves in Back Matter
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