One key area that continues to be problematic for entrepreneurial businesses that wish to serve the broadband market is the question of ensuring competition in multiple-dwelling units (MDUs) and private developments managed by a single landlord or entity. As is the case in Indonesia, many MDUs...

What happens when everyday standalone devices and machines acquire network interfaces? The somewhat obvious result will be an unprecedented number of “things” connected to the Internet. It is less obvious what this means for the governance of the Internet when this occurs. With the...

This paper introduces the rough formula for Emergence Economics - namely, that individual agents, acting through interconnected networks, engage in the evolutionary market processes of differentiating, selecting, and amplifying certain business plans and technologies, which in turn generates a...

This article describes a framework for determining the proper employment of industrial policy by the U.S. Government, focusing on the nascent information services industry. The article concludes that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should refrain from imposing carrier access charges...

With new ways of understanding markets come new ways of formulating and applying public policy solutions. This paper draws on two previous works by the author concerning “Emergence Economics” -- a unified treatment of various cutting-edge schools of economic theory -- and “Adaptive Policy...