All Posts Tagged With: "federal trade commission"
Is the Decline of Newspapers a Market Failure?
Over the past year there has been a flurry of government-related activity aimed at stopping the decline of the newspaper business. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has held three series of workshops on the subject, drawing dozens of top academics, national politicians, business leaders from companies like Google and News Corporation, and the FTC commissioners [...]
22Sep2010 | Edward J. López | 6 comments | ContinuedIs the Decline of Newspapers a Market Failure?
Old journalism is failing not because it is a public good that government has not adequately funded but because it is being replaced with more innovative alternatives.
29Jun2010 | Edward J. López | 14 comments | ContinuedStealth Expansion of Government Power
The government of the United States spent the year debating major new undertakings, ranging from health care to climate change to energy development to tax reform. Yet a far more fundamental shift, in the form of a rapid and pervasive expansion of government power over the private sector of the economy, has been going on [...]
23Oct2009 | Murray Weidenbaum | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Economics of Spam
What’s the matter with the Internet? I used to love it, at least the part of it that brought e-mail. One of the highlights of my day used to be Outlook Express’s friendly tone announcing that another e-mail had arrived in my inbox. Then I would stop what I was doing to see which friend [...]
1Nov2003 | Christopher Westley | 2 comments | ContinuedThe FTC Gets in Its Licks
The freedom of Americans to peacefully manage their own affairs has been shrinking for many decades, as government officials find more and more reasons to tell us what things we must do and what things we may not do. The pettiness of it all is wonderfully demonstrated in a recent decision by the agency that [...]
1Oct2003 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedIgnoring Real Privacy Problems
James Plummer is a policy analyst with Consumer Alert, a nonpartisan market-oriented consumer group based in Washington, D.C. The folks who make up the behemoth known as the federal government have been fretting about privacy, especially Privacy in the Information Age. Proposed commissions, innumerable conferences, and government reports hype the “danger” posed by online booksellers’ [...]
1Dec2000 | James Plummer | 5 comments | ContinuedThe Ghost of John D. Rockefeller
At the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on competitiveness in the computer industry last March, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates was compared to the infamous “robber baron” John D. Rockefeller and his company likened to the Standard Oil Company of the late nineteenth century. Federal Trade Commission chairman Robert Pitofsky made a similar analogy in a Washington [...]
1Jun1998 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Attack on Concentration
Editor’s Note: Yale Brozen, former member of FEE’s board of trustees and a retired professor of business economics at the University of Chicago, died March 4. Reprinted below as a memorial is his article published in The Freeman, January 1979. It is especially timely because of the government’s current legal action against Microsoft. Once we [...]
1Jan1998 | Yale Brozen | 0 comments | Continued-
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