| Abstract: | THE GORDIAN KNOT: POLITICAL GRIDLOCK ON THE INFORMATION HIGHWAY by W. Russell Neuman, Lee McKnight, and Richard Jay Solomon (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997—$20.00, ISBN 0–262–14061–6, 324 pp., notes, references, index) PERSUASION AND PRIVACY IN CYBERSPACE: THE ONLINE PROTESTS OVER LOTUS MARKETPLACE AND THE CLIPPER CHIP by Laura J. Gurak (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997—$25.00, ISBN 0–300–06963–4, 181 pp., appendix on doing research on the Internet, notes, glossary, references, index) PROTECTING YOURSELF ONLINE: THE DEFINITIVE RESOURCE ON SAFETY, FREEDOM AND PRIVACY IN CYBERSPACE by Robert B. Gelman with Stanton McCandlish (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1998—$15.00, paper, ISBN 0–06–25151–8, 210 pp., charts, appendix, index) TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEREGULATION by James Shaw (Norwood, MA: Artech House “Artech House Telecommunications Library,”; 1998—$69.00, ISBN 0–89006–960–3, 394 pp., diagrams, appendices, glossary, index) FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN AMERICAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS by J. Gregory Sidak (Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 1997— $29.95, ISBN 0–226–75626–2, 443 pp., notes, bibliography, appendix, index) THE TWENTY‐ONE MOST FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT STATE TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY by Thomas W. Bonnett (Washington: Council of Governors’ Policy Advisors; distribution by National Governors’ Association voice: 301–498–3738], 1997—$10.00, paper, ISBN not provided, 126 pp., notes, tables, references) EXEMPT TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANIES AND SOME STATE COMMISSION REGULATORY IMPLICATIONS OF ELECTRIC AND TELEPHONE CONVERGENCE by Robert E. Burns ("NRRI 97–21,”; September 1997, 27 pp., table, notes) PRIVATIZATION OF STATE‐OWNED UTILITY ENTERPRISES: THE ALASKA CASE REVISITED THIRTY YEARS LATER by Douglas N. Jones and Bradford H. Tuck ("Occasional Paper, No. 21, NRRI 97–24,”; November 1997, 36 pp., tables, notes) ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION: ENSURING THE RELEVANCE OF PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSIONS by David W. Wirick, et al. ("NRRI 98–06,”; February 1998, 116 pp, charts, tables, notes) PUBLIC POLICY TOWARD CABLE TELEVISION: THE ECONOMICS OF RATE CONTROLS by Thomas W. Hazlett and Matthew L. Spitzer (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press “AEI Series in Telecommunications Deregulation,”; 1997—$32.50, ISBN 0–262–08253–5, 253 pp., charts, tables, glossary, references, index) |
