This essay considers whether the organizational arrangements established by the Constitution of the United States remain effective in promoting “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” which are the purposes of government according to Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. I conclude...

Should rights of access to local broadband facilities be reassigned from investors and, if so, to whom: users, ISPs and content providers, a collective, or no one? A prominent reason for considering such a policy would be a barrier that prevented the voluntary transfer of such rights in response...

In 2003 the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) proposed modest relaxation of its media ownership concentration rules; the proposal aroused heated political opposition and has been partially overturned by Congress and stayed pending appellate review. The purpose of this paper is quite narrow:...

Well over one hundred countries now have antitrust (laws promoting competition), and the majority of these are poor countries. Antitrust generally came to these nations as part of a package of market-oriented reforms after the final collapse of the Soviet economic model in the last decades of...

This paper reviews China’s recent efforts to enact a competition policy (antitrust) law. We focus on three issues: (1) What is the substance of the proposed law, and how does it differ from existing antitrust law in other countries, (2) How will the law be implemented or enforced, and how will...