Tag: political economy
Imagine committing billions of dollars to build a broadband network based in part on government promises of financial support. The possibilities excite your potential customers—rural Americans that lack broadband. But then, without warning, the government fails to follow its own rules and puts the promised support at risk. What would you do? According to economists [...]
The Biden administration recognizes that semiconductors are critical technologies in which US leadership is an important national strategy. This raises the question of why the administration has put Nvidia—a US company and one of the world’s largest chip developers—in such a tough position by limiting its growth opportunities and then limiting its existing markets. It [...]
Rumor has it that the Senate Judiciary Committee is ready to mark up Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s (D-MN) Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA). The News/Media Alliance expects the law to force tech companies to give local news publishers billions of dollars. Klobuchar and her cosponsors say the legislation would save these publishers from an existential [...]
AEI’s technology policy scholars have been hard at work this summer. Antitrust cases at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), continued debate around Big Tech regulatory proposals in Congress, a massive bipartisan investment in semiconductor chip manufacturing, and the rollout of a national broadband infrastructure funding program are just a few examples of recent policy developments [...]
Progressives and their media allies have been fretting loudly that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter might enable more free speech online. They shouldn’t be afraid, at least not if their ideas can compete legitimately with those of traditional liberals, conservatives and libertarians. Who should be afraid of a Musk-led Twitter, however, [...]