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The Basic Economics of Internet Infrastructure

Author(s) -

Shane Greenstein

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

the journal of economic perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 9.614

H-Index - 196

eISSN - 1944-7965

pISSN - 0895-3309

DOI - 10.1257/jep.34.2.192

Subject(s) - the internet , incentive , salient , value (mathematics) , public economics , economics , business , microeconomics , political science , computer science , world wide web , machine learning , law

The internet's structure and operations remain invisible to most economists. What determines the economic value of internet infrastructure and the incentives to improve it? What are the open research questions for the most salient policy issues? This article reviews the basic economics of internet infrastructure, focusing attention on the economic questions motivated by public aspirations for ubiquitous availability and widespread adoption of internet protocols.

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