Comments on: Net Neutrality http://madisonian.net/2006/05/31/net-neutrality/ a blog about law, tech, culture, and related things Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:59:42 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Brett Frischmann http://madisonian.net/2006/05/31/net-neutrality/comment-page-1/#comment-33259 Brett Frischmann Thu, 01 Jun 2006 15:40:54 +0000 http://madisonian.net/?p=676#comment-33259 Mike, Right, I agree with you on that. I didn't mean to be knit-picky. You are absolutely right that much of the debate is non-economic. Brett Mike,

Right, I agree with you on that. I didn’t mean to be knit-picky. You are absolutely right that much of the debate is non-economic.
Brett

]]> By: Mike Madison http://madisonian.net/2006/05/31/net-neutrality/comment-page-1/#comment-33256 Mike Madison Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:26:44 +0000 http://madisonian.net/?p=676#comment-33256 Brett, You know the economic arguments much better than I do, but I do think that a big part of the debate is non-economic (maybe I didn't phrase that elegantly in my post, and I used the wiggle word "seems" there to give me just this escape hatch!). On the economic side, the barriers-to-entry point may be something of a red herring, since the barriers to entry are, in fact, enormous, and the potential harms to competition, innovation, and consumer welfare don't consist only of supra-competitive pricing. Mike Brett,
You know the economic arguments much better than I do, but I do think that a big part of the debate is non-economic (maybe I didn’t phrase that elegantly in my post, and I used the wiggle word “seems” there to give me just this escape hatch!).
On the economic side, the barriers-to-entry point may be something of a red herring, since the barriers to entry are, in fact, enormous, and the potential harms to competition, innovation, and consumer welfare don’t consist only of supra-competitive pricing.
Mike

]]> By: Brett Frischmann http://madisonian.net/2006/05/31/net-neutrality/comment-page-1/#comment-33178 Brett Frischmann Thu, 01 Jun 2006 04:17:33 +0000 http://madisonian.net/?p=676#comment-33178 Another good post by Susan is http://scrawford.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/5/31/1998151.html Another good post by Susan is http://scrawford.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/5/31/1998151.html

]]> By: Brett Frischmann http://madisonian.net/2006/05/31/net-neutrality/comment-page-1/#comment-33173 Brett Frischmann Thu, 01 Jun 2006 03:56:05 +0000 http://madisonian.net/?p=676#comment-33173 Here are the links to blog posts on net neutrality (mentioned in my previous comments) - http://madisonian.net/archives/2005/09/14/network-neutrality/ http://madisonian.net/archives/2005/10/31/competition-policy-is-not-enough/ http://madisonian.net/archives/2006/02/07/network-neutrality-2/ http://madisonian.net/archives/2006/05/09/network-neutrality-not-simply-a-question-of-competition-policy/ http://madisonian.net/archives/2006/05/09/network-neutrality-not-simply-a-question-of-market-vs-government/ http://madisonian.net/archives/2006/05/22/lessig-on-fair-use-and-network-neutrality/ Here are the links to blog posts on net neutrality (mentioned in my previous comments) -

http://madisonian.net/archives/2005/09/14/network-neutrality/

http://madisonian.net/archives/2005/10/31/competition-policy-is-not-enough/

http://madisonian.net/archives/2006/02/07/network-neutrality-2/

http://madisonian.net/archives/2006/05/09/network-neutrality-not-simply-a-question-of-competition-policy/

http://madisonian.net/archives/2006/05/09/network-neutrality-not-simply-a-question-of-market-vs-government/

http://madisonian.net/archives/2006/05/22/lessig-on-fair-use-and-network-neutrality/

]]> By: Brett Frischmann http://madisonian.net/2006/05/31/net-neutrality/comment-page-1/#comment-33172 Brett Frischmann Thu, 01 Jun 2006 03:46:52 +0000 http://madisonian.net/?p=676#comment-33172 It is a very important debate, certainly worth wading into. I've done so in a few papers, including a major portion of my infrastructure paper and a section of Spillovers, and a few blog posts. Still, I wish I could devote more time to it (maybe I'll get out an essay I've been tinkering with later this summer). Tim Wu has a few excellent papers on SSRN.com that are perhaps the best way to get on top of the debate. By the way, the part of the question you framed as "part philosophy" is arguably an economic question, and the part of the question you framed as "part economics" involves much more than evaluating the behavior of incumbent monopolists - even if the likelihood of sustained supra-competitive pricing were small, I think there is still a strong economic case to be made for network neutrality. It is a very important debate, certainly worth wading into. I’ve done so in a few papers, including a major portion of my infrastructure paper and a section of Spillovers, and a few blog posts. Still, I wish I could devote more time to it (maybe I’ll get out an essay I’ve been tinkering with later this summer). Tim Wu has a few excellent papers on SSRN.com that are perhaps the best way to get on top of the debate.

By the way, the part of the question you framed as “part philosophy” is arguably an economic question, and the part of the question you framed as “part economics” involves much more than evaluating the behavior of incumbent monopolists – even if the likelihood of sustained supra-competitive pricing were small, I think there is still a strong economic case to be made for network neutrality.

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