{"id":112,"date":"2009-09-23T06:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T06:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=112"},"modified":"2009-09-23T06:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T06:37:00","slug":"the-broadband-numbers-racket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"The broadband numbers racket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/7005b0f4-a3c5-11de-9fed-00144feabdc0.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" alt=\"FT.com\" src=\"http:\/\/media.ft.com\/cms\/6f68385c-882a-11da-a25e-0000779e2340.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Financial Times has an article called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/7005b0f4-a3c5-11de-9fed-00144feabdc0.html\">The broadband numbers racket<\/a>, by former FCC chief economist Thomas Hazlett, now a professor of law and economics at George Mason University.<\/p>\n<p>Hazlett points out that too many people use superficial selection of statistics to bolster questionable policy positions.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-size: 85%; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: justify;\"><p>Cherry picking broadband penetration numbers to imply the US is slipping into Third World status is fine for a quickie term paper, at least if Wikipedia goes down. But adults ought sort through the multi-dimensional complexity of the real world \u2013 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article refers to a paper published in the Review of Network Economics [<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gstconferences.com\/pdf.gif\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rnejournal.com\/artman2\/uploads\/1\/hazlett_et_al_RNE_dec08.pdf\">pdf<\/a>, 138KB]. The paper looks at different models of regulation on broadband networks and among the findings, it states <\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-size: 85%; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: justify;\"><p>incentives for network investment decline when network owners lose a set of valuable property rights. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Both articles &#8211; from Financial Times and Network Economics &#8211; make an interesting read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial Times has an article called The broadband numbers racket, by former FCC chief economist Thomas Hazlett, now a professor of law and economics at George Mason University. Hazlett points out that too many people use superficial selection of statistics to bolster questionable policy positions. 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