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Thomas M. Lenard
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Thomas Lenard is president and senior fellow at the Technology Policy Institute. Lenard is the author or coauthor of numerous books and articles on telecommunications, electricity, antitrust, privacy, e-commerce and other regulatory issues. His publications include Net Neutrality or Net Neutering: Should Broadband Internet Services Be Regulated?; The Digital Economy Fact Book; Privacy and the Commercial Use of Personal Information; Competition, Innovation and the Microsoft Monopoly: Antitrust in the Digital Marketplace; and Deregulating Electricity: The Federal Role.
Before joining the Technology Policy Institute, Lenard was acting president, senior vice president for research and senior fellow at The Progress & Freedom Foundation. He has served in senior economics positions at the Office of Management and Budget, the Federal Trade Commission and the Council on Wage and Price Stability, and was a member of the economics faculty at the University of California, Davis. He is a past president and chairman of the board of the National Economists Club.
Lenard is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and holds a PhD in economics from Brown University.
Contributions
- Use the Market to Allocate Spectrum, by Thomas M. Lenard, The Hill, November 2, 2011
- Revised articles from TPI conference "Antitrust and the Dynamics of Competition in High-Tech Industries" Review of Industrial Organization, by Thomas M. Lenard, Robert Crandall, Charles Jackson, Bruce M. Owen, Joshua Wright, Christopher Yoo and Tim Brennan, Revised articles from TPI conference "An, July 21, 2011
- The Federal Trade Commission Penalizes Google For Being Successful , by Paul H. Rubin and Thomas M. Lenard, Forbes, June 30, 2011
- Privacy and Data Security: Protecting Consumers in the Modern World. Testimony before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation United States Senate , by Thomas M. Lenard, June 29, 2011
- Improving ICANN's Governance and Accountability: A Policy Proposal, by Thomas M. Lenard and Lawrence White, May 19, 2011
- Comments filed with the Federal Trade Commission on "Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change: A Proposed Framework for Businesses and Policymakers.", by Thomas M. Lenard, February 17, 2011
- Comments filed with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration on "Information Privacy and Innovation in the Internet Economy", by Thomas M. Lenard, January 28, 2011
- Comments filed with NTIA on the "Information Privacy and Innovation in the Internet Economy.", by Paul H. Rubin and Thomas M. Lenard, June 1, 2010
- Google-AdMob: A Bad Precedent, by Thomas M. Lenard, April 27, 2010
- In Defense of Data: Information and the Costs of Privacy, Policy & Internet Journal, by Thomas M. Lenard and Paul H. Rubin, April 16, 2010
- Broadband Bombshell, by Thomas M. Lenard, Lawrence White and James Riso, April 14, 2010
- Lenard Files Comments with the FCC In the Matter of Preserving the Open Internet Broadband Industry Practices, by Thomas M. Lenard, March 2, 2010
- Increasing Spectrum for Broadband: What Are The Options?, by Lawrence White and Thomas M. Lenard, February 12, 2010
- Lenard Files Comments with FCC on Preserving the Open Internet Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, by Thomas M. Lenard, January 13, 2010
- Lenard Files Comments with FCC on Broadband Study Conducted by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, by Thomas M. Lenard, November 9, 2009
- Renewable Electricity Standards, Energy Efficiency, and Cost-Effective Climate-Change Policy, by Thomas M. Lenard, October 6, 2009
- Lenard and White File ICANN Comments with NTIA, by Thomas M. Lenard and Lawrence White, June 5, 2009
- Lenard Testifies on ICANN Reform, by Thomas M. Lenard, June 4, 2009
- In Defense of Data: Information and the Costs of Privacy, by Paul H. Rubin and Thomas M. Lenard, May 18, 2009
- In Defense of Data: Information and the Costs of Privacy - Executive Summary, by Paul H. Rubin and Thomas M. Lenard, May 18, 2009
- ICANN at a Crossroads: A Proposal for Better Governance and Performance, by Lawrence White and Thomas M. Lenard, March 18, 2009
- ICANN at a Crossroads: A Proposal for Better Governance and Performance - Executive Summary, by Thomas M. Lenard and Lawrence White, March 18, 2009
- Evaluating the Effects of Wholesale Electricity Restructuring, by Thomas M. Lenard and Stephen McGonegal, September 18, 2008
- Lenard Files Comments With FCC on AWS-3 Spectrum Auction, June 5, 2008
- Comments with NTIA on ICANN, Tie with Department of Commerce Should Not Be Terminated, by Thomas M. Lenard, February 5, 2008
- An Examination of the Google-DoubleClick Merger and the Online Advertising Industry: What Are the Risks For Competition and Privacy. Testimony before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights Committee on the Judiciary, by Thomas M. Lenard, September 27, 2007
- Googling Monopoly, by Paul H. Rubin and Thomas M. Lenard, August 22, 2007
- Privacy and the Commercial Use of Personal Information: The Case of Customer Proprietary Network Information, by Paul H. Rubin and Thomas M. Lenard, August 15, 2007
- Comments to the Federal Communications Commission Regarding Broadband Industry Practices, by Thomas M. Lenard, June 14, 2007
- Vista, Open Access and Net Neutrality, by Thomas M. Lenard, November 25, 2006
- Intellectual Property Index for the Information Technology Sector, by Thomas M. Lenard, November 14, 2006
- Perspective: Time to Rethink Set-Top Box Regulation, by Thomas M. Lenard, September 28, 2006
- Privacy in the Commercial World II, by Thomas M. Lenard, June 20, 2006
- Why Don't We Just Auction the 'White Space'?, by Thomas M. Lenard, May 16, 2006
- DACA Report from the Working Group on New Spectrum Policy, Release 1.0, by Thomas M. Lenard and Lawrence White, March 22, 2006
- Slow Down on Data Security Legislation, by Thomas M. Lenard and Paul H. Rubin, August 9, 2005
- An Economic Analysis of Notification Requirements for Data Security Breaches, by Thomas M. Lenard and Paul H. Rubin, July 12, 2005
- The Streamlined Sales Tax Project: An Initiative Whose Time has Not Yet Come, by Thomas M. Lenard and Stephen McGonegal, May 23, 2005
- Wireless Philadelphia: A Leap Into the Unknown, by Thomas M. Lenard, April 3, 2005
- FERC's New Regulatory Agenda, by Thomas M. Lenard, October 16, 2002
- FERC's Flawed Assessment of the Benefits and Costs of Regional Transmission Organizations, by Thomas M. Lenard, May 22, 2002
- Orbitz: An Antitrust Assessment, by Thomas M. Lenard and William F. Adkinson, Jr., April 22, 2002
- Privacy and the Commercial Use of Personal Information, by Paul H. Rubin and Thomas M. Lenard, January 15, 2002
