On the technology sites I frequent, TechCrunch and Hacker News, there has been an uproar over Google’s joint proposal with Verizon, in which traditional Internet service providers would be subject to net neutrality regulation and wireless providers would not. I think the outrage over Google’s alleged betrayal of Internet users is ill founded. Most of [...]

Tags: economics, Google, industrial organization, Internet, net neutrality, Rothbard, Varian, Verizon
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There’s a lot of money in education. According to an article a friend posted on Twitter yesterday, Philadelphia spends $400,000 per classroom of 25 students per year. Other cities are similarly lavish. In spite of this spending, urban public schools are usually terrible. There is no simple solution to this problem (read Bill Easterly — [...]

Tags: Easterly, education, industrial organization, law firms, mutual monitoring, partnerships
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