The Untold History of FCC Regulation

Popular wisdom holds that, before the creation of the Federal Radio Commission, the radio spectrum was in chaos. But as former chief economist at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) THOMAS HAZLETT documents in his new book, The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone, the real story of the radio spectrum is quite different. At a Cato Book For...