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Policy

Wirenomics

Jesse Walker | 7.20.2007 3:56 PM

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An economist analyzes my favorite TV show. Money quote: "you could probably base an entire course in Industrial Organization on episodes of The Wire."

Elsewhere in Reason: My interview with Wire creator David Simon.

Elsewhere not in Reason: Simon's show as localist television.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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