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The political spectrum : the tumultuous liberation of wireless technology, from Herbert Hoover to the smartphone / Thomas Winslow Hazlett.
LIBRA HE8678 .H39 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hazlett, Thomas W., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Radio frequency allocation--United States--History.
- Radio frequency allocation.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 401 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- Part 1 Welcome to the Jungle
- 1 Dances with Regulators 13
- 2 Etheric Bedlam 36
- 3 Protection by Subtraction 47
- 4 Myth Calculation 59
- 5 Eureka-nomics 70
- Part 2 Silence of the Entrants
- 6 The Death of DuMont 91
- 7 "Thank God for C-SPAN!" 102
- 8 Lost in Space 119
- 9 Baptists, Bootleggers, and LPFM 126
- Part 3 Adventures in Content Regulation
- 10 Orwell's Revenge: The Fairness Doctrine 137
- 11 Must Carry This, Shall Not Carry That 153
- 12 Indecent Exposure 167
- Part 4 Slouching Toward Freedom
- 13 The Thirty Years' War 175
- 14 Deal of the Decade 192
- 15 The Toaster Tsunami 212
- 16 Dirigiste Backlash 235
- 17 What Would Coase Do? 267
- 18 Hoarders Anonymous 288
- Part 5 Beyond
- 19 The Abolitionists 301
- 20 Spectrum Policy as if the Future Mattered 311.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300210507
- 0300210507
- OCLC:
- 961312417
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