Author Archives: Timothy B Lee

As Erik Kain notes, the point I made yesterday isn’t limited to the telecommunications industry. It applies with equal force in banking. A good example of this principle at work is Cato scholar Lawrence White’s 2004 call for greater regulation … Continue reading →

Everyone knows that the contemporary telecom debate pits free-market opponents of regulation against progressives who want a more activist government. But if that’s what you’re expecting, then the 1970s and early 1980s look very puzzling. You had the Democratic Carter … Continue reading →

There’s been an interesting back-and-forth in the left-of-center blogosphere over efforts to organize a boycott of the Huffington Post for its practice of allowing volunteer bloggers to contribute to the site. The case for the boycott seems so obviously wrong … Continue reading →

In the conclusion of my interview with James Bessen we talk about the difficulty of measuring software-driven economic growth, a topic I’ve written about before. Timothy B. Lee: How should we think about the value that consumers get from the … Continue reading →

One of my favorite scholars is James Bessen, a lecturer at Boston University and a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center. A Harvard graduate, he founded a company that created one of the first desktop publishing systems and helped revolutionize the … Continue reading →

Will Wilkinson couldn’t be more right about this: I would argue that at least half of America’s military spending provides no benefit whatsoever to Americans outside the military-industrial welfare racket. But the other half may be doing some pretty important … Continue reading →

On Wednesday, I argued that collective action problems will delay the transition to IPv6 for many years, and possibly forever. The obvious response is that the world doesn’t have a choice. The majority of the world’s population isn’t yet on … Continue reading →

Today is World IPv6 Day. That’s the day a number of Internet heavyweights are testing out their readiness for the next version of IP, the networking protocol that serves as the foundation for the Internet. The current version of the … Continue reading →

A few people asked if there’s an RSS feed available for my Ars Technica articles. The answer from Ars seems to be no, but Dara Lind has kindly created one using Yahoo! Pipes. She’s also got created an an all-Tim … Continue reading →

Way back in November I wrote about the connection between Apple’s beautiful user interfaces and its top-down corporate culture. At the end of that post, I promised to do a follow-up post focusing on Google’s corporate culture. That post has … Continue reading →