Net Neutrality Regulation and the Evolution of the Internet Economy

There have been a number of calls for the government to regulate internet businesses. The most prominent of these involves “net neutrality” regulation of pricing by Internet Service Providers (ISPs). In a short space of time the net neutrality debate has resulted in a voluminous and heated literature. More recently there has been demand for “search neutrality” regulation of the results displayed by search engines.

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