Embrace OEA, What Economics Can Do for You, TPI's Lenard Urges Next FCC
The new Joe Biden FCC should embrace the Office of Economics and Analytics created under Chairman Ajit Pai, Thomas Lenard, president emeritus of the Technology Policy Institute, blogged Thursday. “All indications are the OEA is off to a good start,”…
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Lenard said. “As the new leadership takes over at the FCC in January, it should build on these efforts so that going forward the Commission’s regulatory and other actions can be better informed by rigorous economic analysis.” Net neutrality is approached by both sides with “quasi-religious fervor,” and “an objective economic analysis of any new proposal might help clarify the issue,” he said.