Richard E. Caves [is] the don of entertainment economics.
   --Austan Goolsbee, New York Times

This book is a successful effort to subject to economic analysis an industry that has undergone substantial organizational changes within a short time and that is marked by quite peculiar structural properties and production practices. Caves ingeniously sorts out the industry's peculiarities and reads the economic meaning and implications of its "tribal customs."
   --Dick Netzer, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University

In Switching Channels, Richard Caves has done a great job bringing together a vast amount of disparate information to provide a comprehensive framework for the study of television broadcasting. The book covers everything from syndication through the rise of cable networks.
   --S. Mark Young, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California

Richard E. Caves is Nathaniel Ropes Research Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University.

Read More by Richard E. Caves:

• Creative Industries: Contracts between Art and Commerce
• Air Transport and Its Regulators: An Industry Study
• Capital Transfers and Economic Policy: Canada, 1951-1962
• Trade and Economic Structure: Models and Methods
• Competition in an Open Economy: A Model Applied to Canada