This book revisits the critical period of unbridled competition between the Bell System and independent telephone companies early in this century.

This book calculates the deadweight loss caused by the inefficient method of taxation that the Federal Communications Commission has employed and describes an alternative method.

The authors consider whether any special circumstances justify departure from free trade in telecommunications equipment.

European economies are undergoing dramatic changes, determined by the rise in knowledge-intensity of economic activities, as an effect of the escalating pace of technological change, on one hand, and by the increasing globalization of economic affairs, driven by markets liberalization, on the...