[Air-l] Down to the Wire

[Lon Berquist]

I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned Bob Crandell's study from a few years
ago:

"The $500 Billion Opportunity: The Potential Economic Benefit of Widespread
Diffusion of Broadband Internet Access,"  
http://www.criterioneconomics.com/docs/Crandall_Jackson_500_Billion_Opportunity_July_2001.pdf

Lon Berquist
berquist at uts.cc.utexas.edu

Quoting Ben Anderson <benander at essex.ac.uk>:

> replying to myself. Bad form. But I missed off this ref which neatly  
> points out the low quality thinking in policy (and some academic)  
> circles on these issues and gives a timely review of the evidence  
> there is:
> 
> Firth, L. and D. Mellor (2005). "Broadband: benefits and problems."  
> Telecommunications Policy 29(2-3): 223-236.
> 
> On 4 May 2005, at 10:10, Ben Anderson wrote:
> 
> > On 3 May 2005, at 07:36, Ellis Godard wrote:
> >
> >> Eh... Is there good data (heck, *any* data) that broadband increases
> >> growth, productivity, or quality of life?
> >>
> >
> > Not yet at the 'everyday life' level. There may have been macro- 
> > economic studies....
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