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The Debate over Pizzaright Reform
Since its creation in the 1930s, the Federal Culinary Commission has tightly regulated the pizza marketplace. Entrepreneurs wishing to open pizzerias have been required to apply to the FCC, specifying...
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Pizzarights and Spectrum Policy
For those not steeped in tech policy, my last post was a satirical look at the spectrum policy debate. In particular, it was inspired by last month’s Tom Hazlett interview on Jerry Brito’s excellent...
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Google-Bound
I’ve officially accepted a position as a summer intern at Google’s New York office, and I wanted to make a couple of quick blog-related notes. First, I’m going to try to steer clear of Google-related...
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Thinking Clearly about Spectrum and Property Rights
I’m delighted that Jerry Brito has written a thoughtful response to my recent posts about spectrum and property rights. I want to start by reiterating what I have said before: Jerry’s paper on the...
View ArticleThe iPad as Disneyland
I’m biased since he’s my advisor, but Ed Felten’s post about the iPad as Disneyland is probably the best critique of the iPad I’ve seen: There’s a reason the restaurants in Disneyland are bland and...
View ArticleFreedom, Pessimism, and Reverse Survivor Bias
Cato vice president (and my former boss) David Boaz had a really fantastic essay last week at Reason about libertarians’ unfortunate tendency to sentimentalize an imagined past of lost liberty: For...
View ArticleDodd Bill Attacks Angel Investing?
I haven’t been following the debate over Sen. Dodd’s financial overhaul closely enough to have an opinion on the overall package, but Mike Masnick flags one aspect of the legslation that seems really...
View ArticleCentral Planners and Conservatism
A couple weeks ago I linked to Ed Felten’s great post comparing the iPad to Disneyland. Reader Sean L. responded: If Disneyland had kiosks where you could choose from 10,000 food vendors, no one would...
View ArticleAround the Web
A bit of self-promotion, and some other stuff that’s worth reading: Justice Stevens announced his retirement a couple of weeks ago. I did a post for Cato looking at his high-tech legacy. Last week,...
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Blogging Break
It’s that time of the semester again. In the interests of not flunking out of grad school, I’ll be taking another break from blogging to focus on my studies. I’ll be back in June.
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