Adam Thierer is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He specializes in innovation, entrepreneurialism, Internet, and free-speech issues, with a particular focus on the public policy concerns surrounding emerging technologies.
Thierer has authored or edited eight books on topics ranging from media regulation and child safety issues to the role of federalism in high-technology markets. His latest book is Permissionless Innovation: The Continuing Case for Comprehensive Technological Freedom.
Previously, Thierer was president of the Progress & Freedom Foundation, director of Telecommunications Studies at the Cato Institute, and a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He received his MA in international business management and trade theory at the University of Maryland and his BA in Journalism and Political Philosophy from Indiana University
Deep Dive Episode 174 – Legal Issues for Commercial Drones: Privacy, Property Rights, and Federalism
Regulatory Transparency Project's Fourth Branch Podcast
Deep Dive Episode 154 – Tech Policy Under the Biden Administration and 117th Congress
Regulatory Transparency Project's Fourth Branch Podcast
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Deep Dive Episode 174 – Legal Issues for Commercial Drones: Privacy, Property Rights, and Federalism
Regulatory Transparency Project's Fourth Branch Podcast
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Regulating Big Tech: Lessons from the “Hall of Fallen Giants”
A Regulatory Transparency Project Fourth Branch Video
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Deep Dive Episode 154 – Tech Policy Under the Biden Administration and 117th Congress
Regulatory Transparency Project's Fourth Branch Podcast
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FCC's O'Rielly on First Amendment & Fairness Doctrine Dangers
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