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Aaron Honsowetz

Aaron M. Honsowetz is an Associate Professor of Economics at Bethany College in West Virginia. Honsowetz specializes in the regulation and impact of historical communication systems in North America. He has published work on the federal deregulation of the United States Telegraph industry. Currently, Honsowetz is working on GIS datasets of the United States & Canadian telegraph networks and documenting the extent to which money orders provided by private companies were an alternative to money orders provided by the United States Post Office.
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Antitrust Enforcement Led to the Creation of the Telephone

Aaron Honsowetz
Aaron M. Honsowetz recounts how Senator John Sherman’s lesser-known antitrust bill, the 1866 Post Roads Act, uprooted local barriers to entry for telegraphy companies, which led them to invest more in R&D and ultimately helped produce the telephone.

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