Whether it is lifting net neutrality regulations, allowing AI to reach its full potential to benefit mankind, educating policy makers about content moderation, clearing legacy regulations at the Federal Communications Commission, advocating for greater spectrum efficiency, or defending business practices that benefit consumers but are disliked by antitrust enforcers, CEI punches above its weight. Coalition activity, relationships with tech and telecom journalists, media appearances, policy events, Capitol Hill outreach, op-eds, and in-depth studies combine to make CEI influential in the tech and telecom policy area.
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Market-based Reforms Needed to Correct Failures of Universal Service Subsidies, Congress Urged to Act
A new report from the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) highlights the pervasive failures of the Universal Service Fund (USF) subsidies and calls on Congress…
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Good things happen when spectrum is allocated to the marketplace
There has been recent legislative activity on spectrum allocation, so it is a good time to remind ourselves why moving as much spectrum as…
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For the sake of user privacy, keep Google search remedies narrow and germane
The movement in the Biden and Trump administrations of antitrust officials away from consumer welfare and towards a federal judiciary of active regulation is on…
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More on the Neutrality Battle
If this whole net neutrality thing sounds a bit complex, let The Simpleton’s Guide explain it all. Because after all, simple is better:…
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What’s the Gift for a One-Year Lobbying Anniversary?
The inaptly named Save the Internet coalition is celebrating its first anniversary today, and Wayne is on the case: “We all can probably agree…
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Net Neutrality Fight Continues Today
Washington , D.C., April 26, 2007—So-called “Net Neutrality” advocates today commemorate one year of organized advocacy of legislation to regulate broadband network speeds. The…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. ENERGY The Senate Finance Committee holds a hearing on energy policy titled “ Coal:…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH First Lady Laura Bush delivers remarks in the White House Rose Garden for Malaria Awareness Day .
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In Defense of the Bundle
Has everyone been taking French lessons without me? That’s the feeling I get when I see the increasing chatter about “a la carte” for everything.
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Commercial Broadcast Radio with…No Commercials?
The New York Times Business section has an interesting story this morning on how one of Clear Channel’s stations in Dallas is eliminating all…
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Cranky Geek Against SarbOx
John C. Dvorak, long time columnist for PC Magazine and head Crank on Cranky Geeks, a popular podcast, has come out against…
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I Do
Surfing around, I just came upon AT&T’s “You Will” advertising campaign from the early 1990s. The ads are well-produced and, almost fifteen years after…
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In Antitrust They Trust
Satellite radio pioneers XM and Sirius are finally going down the long-expected merger path, but not without a fight from the usual suspects. Mel…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY The Senate Commerce Committee holds a hearing on the proposed merger of XM and Sirius Satellite…
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FCC Should Approve the XM-Sirius Satellite Radio Merger
Contact: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C., April 17, 2007—Today, as the…
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Attack of the Killer Bee Killers
We know cell phones don’t give you cancer, but according to some people quoted by The Independent in the UK, they are messing…
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Issues in the News 1. REGULATION Maryland lawmakers approve a statewide ban on smoking in bars and restaurants.
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Farm experts warn of increasing price volatility as U.S. farmers plant more corn to meet the demand for ethanol. CEI Expert…
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Apple, EMI Test DRM-Free
In the wake of the announcement by EMI (along with Apple) that its catalog will now be available on iTunes DRM-free and at…
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Craig Newmark on Trust
Cragislist founder Craig Newmark has an interesting op ed in today’s Washington Examiner on ways in which voluntary collaboration will help resolve new…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. CONGRESS Senators express skepticism over a proposal to mandate a national ID…
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Give Us Some Decent Games
Last week, Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.)introduced H. R. 1531, the “Video Game Decency Act.” This bill is in response to the Hot Coffee…
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Freedom to Hide Behind Avatar
The recent proposed law in Connecticut to verify age of MySpace.com and other social-networking site users has brought up an old question. Is anonymous speech…
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Why data retention legislation would do more harm than good
Do you remember every Web site you visited, every email you sent, and every word you Googled during the last two years? Probably…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. CONGRESS The House of Representatives hears testimony on fuel efficiency regulations for…
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Issues in the News 1. CONGRESS Lawmakers prepare to increase the federal fuel economy standards for new…
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Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT British filmmaker Martin Durkin presents a groundbreaking new documentary on climate change titled “…
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The Simpleton’s Guide to Net Neutrality
Wayne has just alerted me that Scott Cleland of The Precursor Blog has linked to our recent short video on net neutrality. In this…
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Don’t let Uncle Sam Become a Computer Hacker and Identity Thief’s Best Friend
Do you remember every Web site you visited, every email you sent, and every word you Googled during the last two years? Probably not,…
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FCC Rules on Cable Franchise Reform
Contact: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 The following may be attributed to Wayne Crews, CEI's vice president for policy and director of…
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Markets, no Mandates, for Net
The battle over Internet freedom is heating up again. The spark this time is the proposed Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2007, recently…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. HOMELAND SECURITY Federal regulators announce new plans for safeguarding chemical plants from terrorist…
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Thou Shalt Play All of Grand Theft Auto
Yesterday, CNET Reported the following: Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) on Tuesday reintroduced the Truth in Video Game Rating Act, first proposed last September.
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Issues in the News 1. HUMAN RIGHTS Demonstrators gather in cities around the world to protest the imprisonment of…
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Rally to “Free Kareem” and Support Free Speech and Human Rights
Washington, D.C., February 14, 2007—The Bureaucrash Activist Network and allies are urging Egyptian officials to free imprisoned Egyptian blogger Abdelkareem Nabil Soliman and…
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Issues in the News 1. CONGRESS The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee holds a hearing on a…
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Can Congress Tell a Virtual World from the Real One?
Some say online virtual reality operations like “Second Life” have attained the stage of evolution that blogging and the Internet itself occupied several years…
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Issues in the News 1. BUSINESS Competitors renew complaints about the dominance of Microsoft as the company prepares…
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Issues in the News 1. TRADE President Bush plans to ask Congress to grant him renewed “fast track” authority to…
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Issues in the News 1. CONGRESS President Bush prepares to deliver his State of the Union address before…
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How Will Congress Respond to the State of the Union?
Contact: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273…
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Issues in the News GLOBAL WARMING House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces the creation of a new committee on global warming. …
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Issues in the News TECHNOLOGY Microsoft announces it will release its newest operating system, Windows Vista, on January 30th. CEI Expert…
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Issues in the News 1. CONGRESS The House of Representative prepares to pass new energy policy legislation, including…
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Issues in the News 1. CONGRESS Democrats unveil new energy legislation. CEI Expert…
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A Free Market Agenda for the 110th Congress
Washington, D.C., January 10, 2007—Today the Competitive Enterprise Institute releases its policy recommendations for the new leadership on Capitol Hill: This Liberal Congress Went to…
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This Liberal Congress Went to Market: a Bipartisan Policy Agenda for the 110th Congress
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A Free Market Agenda for the 110th Congress
Contact: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C., January 10, 2007—Today the Competitive Enterprise Institute releases its policy recommendations for the new leadership…
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Issues in the News 1. CONGRESS Democratic leaders in Congress plan to take on the nation’s drug companies…
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The FCC’s challenge: Separating speech and state
WASHINGTON – With a stop-off in Nashville, Tenn., in December, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) continues a series of hearings debating government’s role in determining…
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Issues in the News 1. CONGRESS NPR looks into what the new Democratic-controlled Congress plans to do about…
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The Democrats’ Favorite Target
Politicians always talk about promoting the public interest, but in practice that usually means helping your friends and hurting your enemies. The Democrats taking…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH British medical journal The Lancet estimates that as many as 62 million people could die…
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Issues in the News FINANCIAL REGULATION A U.S. District Court hears arguments in the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Free Enterprise Fund’s…
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Only You
Nearly 7 million copies of Time magazine's annual “Person of the Year” issue are set to arrive in mailboxes and on newsstands in…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY Big technology companies lobby Washington for data privacy legislation. CEI Experts Available…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH A new study finds Americans are unsure about the safety of biotech foods.
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Time for a virtual games Declaration of Independence
Some say online virtual reality operations like “Second Life” have attained the stage of evolution that blogging and the Net itself occupied several…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY Tech companies lobby for federal data privacy regulation. CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice President…
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Amazingly efficient merger approvals, cont.
Congress leaves town today, with just two appropriations bills completed (that can be a good thing!). Agencies aren’t going anywhere, but there must be something…
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Issues in the News 1. ENERGY The House of Representatives considers a vote on allowing more offshore oil and…
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Look out Mars, the Humans Are Coming
Today NASA released a series of satellite photograps of Mars, which strongly reinforce the theory that there is (or very recently was) liquid water on…
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Creative Destruction, The Musical
Alex Singleton’s LibertarianHome blog (go bookmark it) today highlights a new Economic Research Council report on the British pop music business called Creative…
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Fly Me (Privately) to the Moon
Like an old boyfriend you stopped calling months ago, NASA has decided it wants to re-capture America’s heart with a bold new proposal. The aeronautical…
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Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY NASA plans a taxpayer-funded moon base to be developed by the year 2020.
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Issues in the News 1. POLITICS The Wall Street Journal editorializes on the efforts of two U.S. Senators to pressure ExxonMobil…
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A Graphic Display of Government Power
Word from /. has it that the Justice Department’s Antitrust division just found a couple more potential tech victims: graphics chipmakers Nvidia and AMD…
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Unleash the media
With a stop-off in Nashville on Dec. 11, the Federal Communications Commission continues a series of hearings debating government's role in determining the…
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Issues in the News 1. BUSINESS A new report recommends easing the regulatory burden on Wall Street. CEI…
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Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT The Supreme Court takes on the question of whether the federal government should be treating…
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Antitrust at the Speed of Government
Microsoft met a November deadline imposed by EU officials for sharing “interface’ and “compatibility’ information about its operating system to workgroup server market competitors who…
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Painted Portraits: The YouTube of the Fifteenth Century
German media tycoon and art historian Hubert Burda has a fascinating essay titled “How People See Themselves,” about the history of portraiture and what…
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Keeping an Eye on the CBS Legal Department
CBS is appealing new FCC indecency regulations (and fines) in court, arguing that the new rules run afoul of the First Amendment. Which, of…
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Internet Medicine: Does that Make Al Gore My Family Physician?
A new study finds an increasing number of doctors using information from Internet searches to help diagnose illnesses: The internet search engine Google…
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Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), the new chair of the Environment & Public Works Committee, has…
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Gambling with freedom
Your after-tax income belongs to you. You are free to spend it, invest it, waste it, burn it, or tithe it away—and none of…
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Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY Verizon and YouTube near a deal to bring web videos to cell…
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Are Republicans and Democrats Really That Different?
Contact: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273…
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Issues in the News 1. INTERNET Delegates to a United Nations conference on Internet governance complain of “too much”…
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Lomborg on the Stern Review: “…selective…flawed…sloppy…one-sided…”
Our friend Bjørn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, has an excellent op-ed in The Wall Street Journal (subscription only) today taking on…
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So the Government Dictating Broadcast Content is ‘Fair’?
Fans of free expression should hit up a piece in Human Events, by our very own John Berlau, on those misguided souls who…
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The ADA Meets Cyberspace
BNA is covering the recent district court ruling that Target can be sued if its website is inaccessible to the blind: In this class…
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Better Halloween Through Science
It turns out that Monsanto, the occasionally controversial biotech company, is hard at work on more than just wheat and maize. They’re also experimenting with…
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Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY International negotiators continue to spar over the future of Internet governance. CEI…
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Bean Counters Caucus in DC
The American Financial Services Association is holding its 90th annual meeting here in Washington this week, and attendees are tackling a number of challenges…
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SEJ 2006: Marc Morano Takes on Alarmist Reporting
We’ve known that Marc Morano was a brave man for some time, but he proved it again last night at the Society of Environmental Journalists’…
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SEJ 2006: Open Source Journalism
There was yet more cool action from the Society of Environmental Journalists’ conference this afternoon as Amy Gahran and Adam Glenn explained…
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Can money offset venality?
Prizes sponsored by private individuals and organizations seem to be the new way to provide incentives for technological and other advances. Now a wealthy…
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Issues in the News ENERGY Exxon Mobil reports second largest quarterly profit ever for a publicly traded U.S. company. …
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COPA: “So Much Easier than Parenting”
The Child Online Protection Act (COPA), signed by President Clinton eight years ago, has yet to be enforced. Kids have grown up waiting to be…
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The Newest Cell Phone Accessory: Lead Underpants
A new study out of the UK suggests that mobile phone radiation may be responsible for increased infertility in men. This observed decline in…
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Rules of Ridicule
“Ridicule is man's most potent weapon,” says the fifth rule of Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals, Saul Alinsky's classic…
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Giving Chase in Cyberspace
Full Document Available in PDF In the debate over identity theft and online security, commentators…
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Politics Nerds Rejoice
Students at my alma mater, Claremont McKenna College, have created a very wonky alternative to the season’s popular fantasy football leagues: fantasy Congress.
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Maybe That’s Why the Lacrosse Scandal Disappeared from the News
Scientists at Duke University and Imperial College London have reportedly developed a cloaking device for solid objects. All of the relevant Romulan and Harry…
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News of YouTube’s Death Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
An argument from Peter Hartlaub of the San Francisco Chronicle on why big business can never be cool, even when it acquires something that…
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They’re Coming to Audit Your Avatar
Fox News this morning raises the alarming prospect of the IRS taxing financial transactions taking places in online virtual communities like Second…
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1. BUSINESS Wal-Mart expands discounts on generic drugs. CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Analyst Zachary Courser on why…
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Decoy Files on P2P Sites Become Ad Vehicles
From The Wall Street Journal, via \. The unusual alliance demonstrates a new tack being taken by the music industry to deal with…
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Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY Universal sues popular video-sharing websites, after signing a revenue sharing deal with YouTube.
Staff & Scholars
Jessica Melugin
Director of the Center for Technology & Innovation
- Antitrust
- Innovation
- Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms
Clyde Wayne Crews
Fred L. Smith Fellow in Regulatory Studies
- Business and Government
- Consumer Freedom
- Deregulation
Fred L. Smith, Jr.
Founder; Chairman Emeritus
- Automobiles and Roads
- Aviation
- Business and Government