Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
Progress Snapshot 5.10 from The Progress & Freedom Foundation A recent telephone poll conducted by professors at Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania concluded, “Contrary to what many marketers claim, most adult Americans (66%) do not want marketers to tailor advertisements to their interest.” The study’s authors claim that their poll is the “the first nationally [...]
The Obama administration has been greeted with enthusiasm by scientists who see the potential for “research-based policy.” Reason, not ideology, will govern. The New Scientist, among other zines, headlines “Let Science Rule: the Rational Way to Run Societies.” (May 28, p. 40-43) This is part of a larger theme: Behavioral economics is taking off.
Groups asking for the government to pump taxpayer funds in rural broadband claim subsidies will help the economy. In reality, deploying broadband has a marginal cost, and markets are better than governments in allocating scarce resources efficiently.
February 14, 2012
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