Archive for Robert B. Ekelund Jr.
Public Policy Toward Cable Television: The Economics of Rate Controls
Robert Ekelund is Lowder Eminent Scholar in the department of economics at Auburn University, Alabama. In modern times no industry has been regulated, “deregulated,” “re-regulated,” and “re-deregulated” more than cable television. Much has been written about cable regulation, but there is no better chronicle of the most recent (post-1984) high tragicomedy of cable doings than [...]
1Dec1998 | Robert B. Ekelund Jr. | 0 comments | Continued-
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