Telecommunication Policy for the Information Age

From Monopoly to Competition

Gerald W. Brock

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Harvard University Press
01 September 1998

Central government policies; Business competition; Ownership & organisation of enterprises; Postal & telecommunications industries

Gerald Brock develops a new theory of decentralized public decisionmaking and uses it to clarify the dramatic changes that have transformed the telecommunication industry from a heavily regulated monopoly to a set of market-oriented firms. He demonstrates how the decentralized decisionmaking process--whose apparent element of chaos has so often invited criticism--has actually made the United States a world leader in reforming telecommunication policy.

By: Gerald W. Brock
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9780674873261
ISBN 10: 0674873262
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 01 September 1998
Audience: Adult education , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gerald W. Brock is Professor of Telecommunication and Director of the Graduate Telecommunication Program at George Washington University, and was previously Common Carrier Bureau Chief at the Federal Communications Commission.

Reviews for Telecommunication Policy for the Information Age: From Monopoly to Competition

I am aware of no work that treats the history of telephone regulation in the United States with such care, at such length, or so evenhandedly. Further, the book is not merely history but economic history, in the sense that the economic incentives giving rise to the behavior described are carefully explored, as are the economic consequences of each policy development.--Bruce M. Owen Journal of Economic Literature