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The political spectrum : the tumultuous liberation of wireless technology, from Herbert Hoover to the smartphone / Thomas Winslow Hazlett.
Author
Hazlett, Thomas W.
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Format
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Language
English
Published/Created
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
©2017
Description
xi, 401 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
HE8678 .H39 2017
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Radio frequency allocation
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United States
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Summary note
"Popular legend has it that before the Federal Radio Commission was established in 1927, the radio spectrum was in chaos, with broadcasting stations blasting powerful signals to drown out rivals. In this fascinating and entertaining history, Thomas Winslow Hazlett, a distinguished scholar in law and economics, debunks the idea that the U.S. government stepped in to impose necessary order. Instead, regulators blocked competition at the behest of incumbent interests and, for nearly a century, have suppressed innovation while quashing out-of-the-mainstream viewpoints. Hazlett details how spectrum officials produced a "vast wasteland" that they publicly criticized but privately protected. The story twists and turns, as farsighted visionaries--and the march of science--rise to challenge the old regime. Over decades, reforms to liberate the radio spectrum have generated explosive progress, ushering in the "smartphone revolution," ubiquitous social media, and the amazing wireless world now emerging. Still, the author argues, the battle is not even half won." --Amazon.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-383) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Magic and cacophony
Dances with regulators
Etheric bedlam
Protection by substraction
Myth calculation
Eureka-nomics
The death of DuMont
"Thank God for C-SPAN!"
Lost in space
Baptists, bootleggers, and LPFM [low-power FM]
Orwell's revenge: the fairness doctrine
Must carry this, shall not carry that
Indecent exposure
The thirty year's war
Deal of the decade
The toaster tsunami
Dirigiste blacklash
What would Coase do?
Hoarders Anonymous
The abolitionists
Spectrum policy as if the future mattered.
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ISBN
9780300210507 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
0300210507 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016950652
OCLC
961312417
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