This week on the communicators, a discussion of Economic Policy and federal communications commission. Our guest is halsinger, an economist and season fellow the George Washington University Institute of public policy. Dr. Singer in a recent paper you cao authored, the curious absence of Economic Analysis the federal communications commission, an agency in search of a mission is the title. You write that the fcc is often an economics free zone. What do you mean by that . Guest i mean that they are not taking economics into consideration when making policy decisions. They are instead relying on noneconomic evidence, the popular whims and fancies of the die reach decisions that have tremendous economic import. Host has it always been that way . Guest its not always been that we. We chart the ebb and flow of economic influence. This is not the first time that economics has been relegated to something well below the eighth floor. But we havent seen something in recent history quite like th
I am delighted to now introduce the board of trustees, Jacob Weisberg, who has been involved in the internet before we knew what it was since 1996. Eer in then a pionw field and what we talked about how to take on the topic whouding experts and people signed Net Neutrality and their eyes glazed over and we got the perfect person would be Jacob Weisberg so over to you. Thank you. Want to think of the fordham system for sponsoring this event. We are going to do way better than have your eyes glaze over. A hallucination of this interesting and lively and very urgent issue. I want to briefly introduce the panel and then give them a chance to make Opening Statements and will mix it up and save time for questions. I will start with my old friend micah sifry and i know him going back to when he was a writer for the nation. That he works for the democracy for and author of a new book called the big disconnect. Agree with the premise. To my left is tim wu, you may recognize him from his recent
President obama not in washington dc this week. And australia. Ia his First Official stop is today for the economic conference. He will meet chinese president xi jinping. On friday at bilateral meeting with the burmese president and a separate meeting with the Opposition Leader there. He is expected to deliver a major policy address. On his keep you updated trip here on the cspan networks. Awaiting action in the house, federal spending for the 2014 fiscal spending. New members begin orientation on senatey and then in the votes are expected on judicial nominations and a childcare block program. You can watch the house live here on cspan and the senate on our companion network. The secretary Veterans Administration is set to announce a Major Overhaul to make it easier for millions of patients to seek care. The department is going to aim to simplify the process of getting into the system, streamlining any streamlining nine different structures. Thatecretary acknowledged employees must be
The field and youre playing a different sport. You go wow. Today it is soccer. Tomorrow it is baseball. It is that stunning of a difference. You no longer are going to be able to protect your ability to one thing and go out there and it is going to be very frustrating to people and that is why the structures and roles of leaders are going to be so dramatically different. To re they are going catch themselves looking at headlights and they are going to get run over. A question for about relations. Some people think it is an institutional issue. Some people think it is personal relationships that you have talked about so much. Im curious, where do you think t falls on both . Yeah, well, i think they are related. If you go back in history and look at what president lincoln put together and we remember how good it was when he and ulysses s. Grant the last couple of years of the war, it took some painful years to get to that. I think that ultimately it takes really good relationships. It ta