Former FCC Commissioner Launches Free-Market Think Tank

Former Federal Communications Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth is heading up a new think tank dedicated to free-market Internet policies.

The Center for Economics of the Internet was launched by the Hudson Institute. As founder and director, Furchtgott-Roth will oversee production of analysis and research at the Center. Before heading to the FCC, Furchtgott-Roth helped oversee passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 as chief economist for the House Commerce Committee. He has since worked as a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and founder of Furchtgott-Roth Economic Enterprises.