Economic FAQs About the Internet

Jeffrey Mackie-Mason and Hal Varian ()

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Abstract: This is a set of Frequently Asked Questions (and answers) about the economic, institutional, and technological structure of the Internet. We describe the history and current state of the Internet, discuss some of the pressing economic and regulatory problems, and speculate about future developments.

Keywords: Internet; telecommunications; congestion pricing; National Information Infrastructure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D40 L10 L96 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996-06-03
Note: Type of Document - PDF; prepared on Windows; to print on Postscript; pages: 28 ; figures: none. This is a recently re-edited but largely unchanged version of our 1995 paper. Various updates have been published in several places, including the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and soon in Internet Economics, eds. J. Bailey and L. McKnight, MIT Press
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Related works:
Working Paper: Economic FACs about the Internet (1994)
Journal Article: Economic FAQs About the Internet (1994)
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