This book examines the effect of regulation on competition in long-distance telephone markets after the 1984 breakup of the Bell System.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum caused a stir last month when he labeled college campuses "indoctrination mills" that enforce a strict adherence to "politically correct left doctrine." For conservatives, Mr. Santorum might as well have called the sky blue. But from the way liberal pundits pounced on his remarks, you'd think he had said something profoundly indecent.

Emotional attention directed toward the Internet and online images of other people have profoundly affected human relations, and the self-image of the human being.

Mobile telephones now account for 75 percent of all telephone connections in nineteen of the poorest African countries. The growth in the numbers of mobile telephone subscribers in developing countries is twice that in developed countries. This conference examines recent empirical findings that mobile communication services have stimulated economic growth...

AEI scholars are available to comment on President George W. Bush' nomination of Ben S. Bernanke to succeed Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve.

This book revisitsthe critical period of unbridled competition between the Bell System and independent telephone companies early in this century.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released a study suggesting that rates of sexual violence in the United States are comparable to those in the war-stricken Congo. How is that possible?

On July 21, 1997,AEI and the American Cancer Societyreleased the results of a telephone survey of a representative sample of 200 practicing oncologists such as cancer specialists.