What are some free market approaches to radio spectrum allocation?

Economics Economics Questions
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I am curious if there has been any thought on how radio spectrum allocation would be handled in a free market way; would private ownership of land grant you control over the signals passing through your land?

There is an interesting article on some of the recent difficulties presented by the US FCC on this matter (ironically in a magazine enttitled ‘spectrum’) http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/wireless/the-great-radio-spectrum-famine/0

I would appreciate any information anyone may provide on previous work done in this area, or even simple discourse.

Thank you,

Hugh

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See radio free rothbard

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Rothbard wrote about this in For A New Liberty (starting at p119):

“The Spectrum Should Be Private Property” by B.K. Marcus:

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Here are a few I have bookmarked:

Radio Free Rothbard

The Spectrum Should be Private

Related: [The Evarporation of the FCC](http://The Evaporation of the FCC)

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Thank you all for the references, and the speed at which you responded!

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This was covered by Rand in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Chapter 10