The data lines that carry our internet traffic makeup part of the infrastructure of this country just like the concrete of the sewers and highways, and infrastructure is an area - an inefficient market - that requires government regulation and funding to be both competitive for its (usually) small number of companies and fair for the public that needs access to it.

Larry Lessig has a good post about how the United States is falling behind the rest of the developed world in internet infrastructure development because of a lack of intelligent regulation in the broadband access market.

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Over the summer I wrote a paper for school that took a high-level look at how investment in a transportation facility would affect the economic development outcomes of an area, with specific reference to the Interstate 86 corridor of the Southern tier counties of New York State. In the interest of open scholarship, I figured I would make the paper available online:

What Will the Future Bring? The Economic Development Impacts of Transportation Investment and a Look at the Interstate 86 Project (460 Kb PDF)

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