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The media and narratives of the intellectual

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The intellectuals in the media are torn between two roles of the professional and that of the amateur. On one side, they are a part of the industry that engaged in the production of surplus goods and services. On the other side, they are involved in generating meaning for public consumption through their select forms of communication. They are inescapably representatives in some way of both knowledge and the public. Their capability to associate both provides the legitimacy and the role they play in the society.

Social aspects, Popular culture, Intellectuals, Mass media

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A personal intellectual memoir

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A professor traces the history of his intellectual development, to identify his core concerns and commitments and to indicate social factors that shaped his intellectual life and work. He believes that a political economy of culture stems from the larger classical tradition of Smith, Ricardo and Marx, whose central proposition is that the mode of production, the economy, as it shapes both the general lineaments of social practices and relations, patterns of beliefs and the social reforms.

United States, Evaluation, Personal narratives, College teachers, College faculty, Intellectual life, Social reform

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Deregulating telecommunications and the problem of natural monopoly: a critique of economics in telecommunications policy

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Deregulation of the telecommunications industry will not improve its efficiency. Telecommunication has features of a natural monopoly, and competition could lead to inefficiency. The goals of public utility regulation should not be limited to enforcing market entry to competing firms as would occur under deregulation. Rather, regulation should serve social interests by the use of public controls to foster economic well being.

Economic aspects, Telecommunications industry, Deregulation, Telecommunication policy, Telecommunications policy

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