Maybe, Nathan Newman (of anyone here) has looked at the book by Kennard, the
Clinton FCC regulator. I've read he is pissed that the compromise on
"microradio" he sheperded through the hearings and bureaucratic log rolling
has been overturned by Michael Powell, the new FCC poobah.
Michael Pugliese
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Schaap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 7:40 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:11878] Re: microregulation vs. regulation
> > Michael Pollak wrote:
> > >What distinguishes a regulation from a microregulation?
>
> Just taking off from Jim's response to this, it occurs to me that the
> logic-du-jour is then very much about micro-regulation, as regulation
exists
> only to keep competition going where its telos towards monopoly is most
> manifest and to avoid whatever they consider 'market failure'.
>
> There's also a bit of techno-regulation going on, as with nominating dodgy
> interactive television standards and such, which strikes me as weird for
'free
> market' governments, but then there might be a local mogul or two at the
root
> of that (which seems to be the best explanation for our mob effectively
> banning av streaming).
>
> And then there's the sort of regulation which is to do with professed
social
> goals (eg. universal service obligations, price caps on utility services
etc)
> which sorta hollers at the outset that the market can't be trusted to get
> important things right if you want a semblance of democracy and the equity
> that has to go with it; and it's this class of regulation that finds least
> logical support in the 'policy communities' of today's west.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob.
>
