Going digital! : a guide to policy in the digital age / Robert E. Litan and William Niskanen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Litan, Robert E., 1950-

Contributor:

Niskanen, William A., 1933-2011.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic commerce.

Digital electronics.

Internet.

Physical Description:

vii, 91 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press : Cato Institute, [1998]

Summary:

The information age technology revolution promises enormous benefits to the U.S. and global economies. Yet if those benefits are to be fully realized, policymakers in the U.S. and abroad must rethink some fundamental premises about how economic activity has traditionally been governed.

Should we continue to regulate industries the way we have in the past? Does the digital age require a new approach to antitrust enforcement? To best facilitate global electronic commerce, what changes are needed in intellectual property law, professional licensing requirements, laws governing privacy and content, and policies relating to standards? And what steps, if any, are required to best ensure that all citizens have access to the new technologies?

This book examines these and other policy issues. It draws on a spring 1997 conference sponsored by the Brookings Institution and the Cato Institute where leading experts in various fields related to information technology presented their views.

Contents:

Introduction

Digital optimism

Digital skeptics and pessimists

Market solutions

The proper role for government.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 83-84) and index.

ISBN:

0815752857

OCLC:

37976774