The true economic value of the Internet? Lots of people

Christiaan Hogendorn of Wesleyan University tells the Federal Communications Commission that Network Neutrality makes good economic sense.

Hogendorn's paper argues, in essence, that the "the full value to society of an open Internet" is more or less equivalent to the degree of social participation that it draws. And that value "is likely to be considerably higher than the value that an ISP would consider when setting prices and policies that would degrade the quality of some sources of content relative to others," e.g., the kind of prioritized access rules that the FCC's proposed net neutrality regulations would bar.