Tom Giovanetti is president of the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI), a conservative, free-market public policy research organization based in Dallas, Texas.
In addition to his administrative duties, Tom writes for IPI and for leading publications on a variety of policy topics including taxes and economic growth, self-government and the Founders' design, civil liberties and constitutional protections, judicial supremacy, intellectual property, Social Security personal accounts, technology and Internet policy, and out-of-control government spending. In addition to being regularly published in major outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, FoxNews.com and The Dallas Morning News, Tom has a regular column in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Tom frequently appears in the media and is a fill-in host for the Mark Davis Show in the Dallas-Fort Worth market.
Tom's passion is encouraging conservative voters and organizations to remain skeptical of Big Government, maintain faith in markets, and defend individual liberty as the best means of achieving human flourishing. His most recent work has focused on free-market solutions to the student debt issue, preserving freedom of speech online, and persuading state legislatures to override local and municipal policies that restrict economic liberty.
Mr. Giovanetti has represented IPI at many national and international organizations, including the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) the World Health Organization (WHO) and represented IPI during trade agreement negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Mr. Giovanetti is a popular speaker and writer, and also testifies before state and federal legislative committees on a variety of topics.
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No Clear Cut Winner From DC Circuit Net Neutrality Decision
Everyone spins the results of important court decisions such as this, but the early social media reactions that “Verizon won and the FCC lost” were an uninformed oversimplification.
Kim Dotcom Bought His Bling At The Cost Of A Whole Lot of American Jobs
Yes, it’s a crime to induce massive copyright infringement. Like most pirates, Kim Dotcom tries to whitewash his crimes, but he’s a career criminal, not a hero.
Why Raising the Minimum Wage Is a Bad Idea
When you set a legal price control on labor, which is what a minimum wage is, you make it illegal for low skill workers to sell their labor. It's as simple as that.
Good job, Mr. Wheeler
Okay, so it looks like Mr. Wheeler is getting a good start, choosing the IP transition as a major push for his tenure at the FCC
Obama admin using taxpayer dollars to advocate for a tax increase
The SBA is using taxpayer dollars to advocate for passage of the Marketplace Fairness Act, an unconstitutional tax increase on the Internet.
The truth about the leaked IP chapter of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)
If you don’t like existing U.S. IP law and practices, you probably aren’t going to like a trade agreement that seeks to make those laws and practices normative. But that doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with the trade agreement—it just reflects your ideological disagreement with current IP law. And that’s the nature of almost all the clamor over the leaked IP chapter of the TPP.
This is what passes for discussion with the CopyLeft
The folks over at Engadget sponsored a conference in New York this past Sunday, and of course they did a panel on copyright policy. Of course they did.
On Friday's Global IP Summit, patent trolls, and lousy numbers
On Friday, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC) held its 2013 Global IP Summit.
Further proof the sequester didn't harm the economy
This morning, third quarter GDP numbers were released, and during the third quarter the economy grew by 2.8%, again higher than expected.
Comcast's Internet Essentials exceeds 1 million Americans connected
Comcast's Internet Essentials program, designed to encourage broadband adoption among low-income families, has connected more than 1 million Americans to the Internet.
Pro-TPP Caucus Formed on the Hill
Today, a new caucus was formed on Capitol Hill in support of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
The Next Battle
The sequester is the prize, and the sequester is what must not be surrendered.
Missing the Point on Piracy Data
Markets take place within the rule of law. We don’t insist that markets adapt to account for criminal behavior.
The London School of Economics Wets Itself
The inherent bias, gross mishandling of data, and misrepresentation of the research conclusions of others that characterize this LSE paper should embarrass the London School of Economics. Particularly its economists.
Does President Obama Understand Congress At All?
The "piecemeal approach" President Obama dissed is regular order in Congress.
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