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Eli Noam

Special Research Scholar in the Faculty of Business
Economics Division
Director
Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
Eli Noam
Areas of Expertise
Media, Microeconomics
Contact
Office: 521 Kravis
Phone: (212) 8548332
E-mail: [email protected]
Links
Personal Website

Professor of Economics and Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility, emeritus. Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, a research center focusing on management and policy issues in telecommunications, internet, and electronic mass media. Served as Public Services Commissioner of New York State. Appointed by the White House to the President’s IT Advisory Committee. Also taught at Columbia Law School, Princeton University’s Economics Department and Woodrow Wilson School, and the Swiss universities of St. Gallen and Fribourg. Published 37 books and over 350 articles, and was a regular columnist for the Financial Times online edition. Recent books: Digitized Labor (2018); Managing Media and Digital Organizations (1.9 million downloads 2020); Media and Digital Management (1.8 million downloads 2020); Technology, Business, and Economics of Streaming Video (2021); as well as the award-winning books Who Owns the World’s Media (2016) and Content, Impact, and Regulation of Streaming Video (2021). President of International Media Management Academic Association, 2013-2015. At Columbia University Senate, Chair of Budget and of Benefits committees (until 2022).

Advisory boards: Federal government’s telecommunications network; IRS computer system; National Computer Systems Lab; National Commission on Status of Women in Computing; Governor’s Task Force on New Media; Intek Corporation; Nexus Mundi Foundation (telemedicine in Africa); Oxford Internet Institute; Electronic Privacy Information Center; Minority Media Council. IT Advisory boards for governments of Ireland and Sweden. Fellow of World Economic Forum, member Council on Foreign Relations. Commercially rated pilot. Served in the Israel Air Force in 1967 and 1973 wars; search & rescue pilot with the Civil Air Patrol (1st Lt.). Married to Nadine Strossen, law professor and former national president of the American Civil Liberties Union. AB, AM, Ph.D (Economics) and JD from Harvard University, and honorary doctorates from University of Munich and University of Marseilles.

Education
Harvard, BA, 1970; MA, 1972; PhD (Economics), 1975; JD, 1975. Honorary Doctorate: University of Munich, 2004.
Joined CBS
1976

All Activities

  • Research
  • Teaching
  • Awards and Honors
  • Press
  • CaseWorks
  • Journal articles
  • Working papers
  • Articles
  • Books
  • Chapters
Journal Article
Noam, Eli
. “The Macro-Economics of Crypto-Currencies: Balancing Entrepreneurialism and Monetary Policy .” (December 12, 2019):
79
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119
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Journal Article
Noam, Eli
. “Next-Generation Regulation for Next-Generation TV.”
IIC@50, IIC - The Last 50, and the Next
(December 03, 2019):
51
-
66
.
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Journal Article
Noam, Eli and Andres Hervas-Drane
. “Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and Cultural Trade Protectionism.”
Information Economics and Policy
vol.
41
, (December 01, 2017):
15
-
27
.
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Journal Article
Noam, Eli
. “Beyond the Mogul: From Media Conglomerates to Portfolio Media.”
Journalism
vol.
19
, no.
8
(September 15, 2017):
1096
-
1130
.
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Journal Article
Noam, Eli
. “How the Internet Got Donald Trump Elected.”
InterMEDIA
vol.
44
, no.
4
(January 01, 2017):
22
-
25
.
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Journal Article
Noam, Eli
. “Cloud TV: Toward the Next Generation of Network Policy Debates.”
Telecommunications Policy
vol.
38
, (January 01, 2014):
684
-
692
.
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Journal Article
Noam, Eli
. “Why MOOCs are Anti-Innovation.”
Journal of Teaching in Academia
(January 01, 2014):
9
-
13
.
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Journal Article
Noam, Eli
. “Cutting the Cord: Common Trends Across the Atlantic.”
Communications & Strategies
vol.
92
, (January 01, 2013):
13
-
17
.
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Journal Article
Noam, Eli
. “Beyond Net Neutrality: End-User Sovereignty.”
Communications and Strategies
vol.
84
, (January 01, 2011):
153
-
173
.
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Journal Article
Noam, Eli
. “Regulation 3.0 for Telecom 3.0.”
Telecommunications Policy
vol.
34
, (January 01, 2010):
4
-
10
.
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Journal Article
Noam, Eli
. “Why the Internet Is Bad for Democracy.”
Communications of the ACM
vol.
48
, (January 01, 2008):
57
-
58
.
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Journal Article
Noam, Eli
. “Fundamental Instability: Why Telecom Is Becoming a Cyclical and Oligopolistic Industry.”
Information Economics and Policy
vol.
18
, (January 01, 2008):
272
-
84
.
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Journal Article
Noam, Eli
. “Smart Homes.”
Global Agenda Magazine
vol.
4
, (January 01, 2006):
194
-
5
.
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Journal Article
Noam, Eli
. “Deregulation and Market Concentration: an Analysis of Post-1996 Consolidations.”
Federal Communications Law Journal
vol.
58
, (January 01, 2005):
539
-
49
.
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Working Paper
Noam, Eli
. Metaverse-TV: Promise, Disappointment, and Opportunity. Forthcoming.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Noam, Eli
. “Why the World Needs Quality Standards for International Comparisons.”
Journal of the Society for Information and Communications Research
. Forthcoming.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Noam, Eli
. “MVPD Blues: Content Access Policy in Korea and the U.S.”
Media Access in America and Korea
. Forthcoming.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Noam, Eli
. “Broadband Convergence in Japan.”
Journal of the Society for Information and Communications Research
. Forthcoming.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Noam, Eli
. “Economics of Scale, Network Effects, and the Dynamics of the Telecom Industry Structure.”
International Journal of Management and Network Economics
. Forthcoming.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Noam, Eli
. “Media Scholars as Activists: Media De-Concentration as Social Reform?”
Tulsa Law Review
. Forthcoming.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Noam, Eli
. “Can America Afford FCC Chairman Genachowski?”
Financial Times
. December 14, 2010.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Noam, Eli
. “The need for quality standards in international comparisons.”
Financial Times
. August 23, 2010.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Noam, Eli
. “The re-assertion of America in ICT.”
Financial Times
. June 19, 2010.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Noam, Eli
. “Paying for the American National Broadband Internet Plan.”
Financial Times
. April 05, 2010.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Noam, Eli
. “Is Telecom Infrastructure Peaking?”
Financial Times
. January 19, 2010.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Noam, Eli
. “Economics 2.0? A Business Primer on Virtual Worlds.”
Financial Times Online
. October 02, 2007.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Noam, Eli
. “Free the Edge.”
Financial Times Online
. July 30, 2007.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Noam, Eli
. “A Paradoxical Free Trade Agreement .”
Financial Times Online
. June 14, 2007.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Noam, Eli
. “Public Telecoms 2.0: The Return of the State.”
Financial Times Online
. April 25, 2007.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Noam, Eli
. “Private Equity Is a Problem for Public Media.”
Financial Times Online
. February 19, 2007.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Noam, Eli
. “Telecommunications Leadership Changes Guard.”
Financial Times Online
. December 29, 2006.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Noam, Eli
. “TV Regulation Will Become Telecom Regulation.”
Financial Times Online
. October 24, 2006.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Noam, Eli
. “A third way for net neutrality .”
Financial Times Online
. August 29, 2006.
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Book
Noam, Eli
. The Content, Impact, and Regulation of Streaming Video: The Next Generation of Media Emerges. 
Northampton, MA
:
Edward Elgar Publishing
, 2021.
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Book
Noam, Eli
. The Technology, Business, and Economics of Streaming Video: The Next Generation of Media Emerges. 
Northampton, MA
:
Edward Elgar Publishing
, 2021.
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Book
Noam, Eli
. Media and Digital Management. 
New York
:
Palgrave Macmillan
, 2019.
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Book
Noam, Eli
. Managing Media and Digital Organizations. 
New York
:
Palgrave Macmillan
, 2019.
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Book
Pupillo, Lorenzo, Eli Noam , and Leonard Waverman
. Digitized Labor: The Impact of the Internet on Employment. 
New York
:
Palgrave Macmillan
, 2018.
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Book
Sapolsky, Harvey M. , Rhonda J. Crane, W. Russell Neuman, and Eli Noam
. The Telecommunications Revolution: Past, Present, Future. Edited by
Eli Noam
.
New York
:
Routledge
, 2018.
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Book
Noam, Eli
. Who Owns the World’s Media? Media Concentration and Ownership around the World. 
New York
:
Oxford University Press
, 2016.
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Book
Faustino, Paulo, Eli Noam , Christian Scholz, and John Lavine
. Media Industry Dynamics: Management, Concentration, Policies, Convergence and Competition. 
Lisbon
:
Media XXI
, 2014.
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Book
Noam, Eli, Lorenzo Pupillo, and Johann Kranz
. Broadband Networks, Smart Grids and Climate Change. 
New York
:
Springer
, 2013.
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Book
Noam, Eli
. Media Ownership and Concentration in America. 
New York, NY
:
Oxford University Press
, 2008.
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Book
Noam, Eli and Lorenzo Maria Pupillo
. Peer-to-Peer Video: The Economics, Policy, and Culture of Today's New Mass Medium. 
New York
:
Springer-Verlag
, 2008.
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Book
Groebel, Jo, Eli Noam , and Valerie Feldmann
. Mobile Media: Content and Services for Wireless Communications. 
Mahwah, NJ
:
Lawrence Erlbaum
, 2006.
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Book
Noam, Eli
. Telecommunications Meltdown. 
Tokyo
:
NTT Publishing
, 2005.
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Book
Noam, Eli
. Internet Television. 
Mahwah, NJ
:
Lawrence Erlbaum
, 2004.
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Book
Noam, Eli
. Competition for the Mobile Internet. 
Norwell, MA
:
Kluwer
, 2003.
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Book
Noam, Eli
. Interconnecting the Network of Networks. 
Cambridge, MA
:
MIT Press
, 2001.
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Book
Noam, Eli
. The New Investment Theory of Real Options and its Implication for Telecommunications Economics. 
Norwell, MA
:
Kluwer
, 1999.
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Chapter
Noam, Eli
. “Overcoming Market Power in Online Video Platforms.” In
Regulating Big Tech: Policy Responses to Digital Dominance
, edited by
Martin Moore and Damian Tambini
,
55
-
73
.
New York
:
Oxford University Press
, 2021.
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Chapter
Noam, Eli
. “The Fundamental Volatility of the Digital Economy as a Contributor to Financial Instability.” In
After the Crash: Financial Crises and Regulatory Responses
, edited by
Sharyn O'Halloran and Thomas Groll
,
200
-
208
.
New York
:
Columbia University Press
, 2019.
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Chapter
Noam, Eli
. “Looking Ahead at Internet Video and its Societal Impacts.” In
Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication are Changing Our Lives
, edited by
Mark Graham and William H. Dutton
,
371
-
388
.
New York
:
Oxford University Press
, 2019.
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Chapter
Faustino, Paulo and Eli Noam
. “Media Industries’ Management Characteristics and Challenges in a Converging Digital World.” In
Making Media: Production, Practices, and Professions
, edited by
Mark Deuze and Mirjam Prenger
,
147
-
160
.
Amsterdam
:
Amsterdam University Press
, 2019.
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Chapter
Noam, Eli
. “Inequality and the Digital Economy.” In
Digitized Labor: The Impact of the Internet on Employment
, edited by
Lorenzo Pupillo, Eli Noam , and Leonard Waverman
,
117
-
140
.
New York
:
Palgrave Macmillan
, 2018.
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Chapter
Pupillo, Lorenzo, Eli Noam , and Leonard Waverman
. “Digitized Labor: The Impact of the Internet on Employment.” In
Digitized Labor: The Impact of the Internet on Employment
, edited by
Lorenzo Pupillo, Eli Noam , and Leonard Waverman
,
1
-
18
.
New York
:
Palgrave Macmillan
, 2018.
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Chapter
Noam, Eli
. “Beyond the Golden Age of the Public Network.” In
The Telecommunications Revolution: Past, Present, and Future
, edited by
Harvey M. Sapolsky, Rhonda J. Crane, W. Russell Neuman, and Eli Noam
,
6
-
10
.
London
:
Routledge
, 2018.
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Chapter
Ang, Andrew, Ann Bartel , Patrick Bolton , Wouter Dessein , Franklin Edwards , Lawrence Glosten , Geoffrey Heal , Gur Huberman , Charles Jones , Christopher Mayer , Frederic Mishkin , Eli Noam , Andrea Prat , Jonah Rockoff , Lynne Sagalyn , Stephen Zeldes , and Brian Thomas
. “1. Finance and Economics.” In
Columbia Business School
,
1
-
28
.
Columbia University Press
, 2016.
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Chapter
Noam, Eli
. “From the Internet of Science to the Internet of Entertainment.” In
Handbook on the Economics of the Internet
, edited by
Johannes M. Bauer and Michael Latzer
,
553
-
570
.
Northampton, MA
:
Edward Elgar Publishing
, 2016.
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Chapter
Noam, Eli
. “Why the Internet Economy Raises Inequality – Implications for Media Managers.” In
The Business of Media: Change and Challenges
, edited by
Monica Herrero and Steve Wildman
,
21
-
37
.
Lisbon
:
Media XXI
, 2015.
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Chapter
Noam, Eli
. “Next-Generation Content for Next-Generation Networks.” In
Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication are Changing Our Lives
, edited by
Mark Graham and William H. Dutton
,
319
-
332
.
New York
:
Oxford University Press
, 2014.
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Chapter
Noam, Eli
. “Does Media Management Exist?” In
Media Industry Dynamics: Management, Concentration, Policies, Convergence and Competition
, edited by
Paulo Faustino, Eli Noam , Christian Scholz, and John Lavine
,
27
-
41
.
Lisbon
:
Media XXI
, 2014.
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Chapter
Noam, Eli
. “L’avenir de la télévision– La quatrième génération : « cloud-TV », le nuage des nuages.” In
Le futur est-il e-media?
, edited by
Patrick-Yves Badillo and Dominique Roux
,
3
-
13
.
Paris
:
Economica
, 2014.
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Chapter
Noam, Eli
. “Media Entertainment as Development Strategy.” In
Broadband as a Video Platform: Strategies for Africa
, edited by
Judith O'Neill, Eli Noam , and Darcy Gerbarg
,
11
-
13
.
New York
:
Springer
, 2013.
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Chapter
Noam, Eli
. “Research Demands on Demand Research.” In
Demand for Communications Services – Insights and Perspectives: Essays in Honor of Lester D. Taylor
, edited by
James Alleman, Áine Marie Patricia Ní-Shúilleabháin, and Paul N. Rappoport
,
xv
-
xxiii
.
New York
:
Springer
,
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