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What does cheating in college have to do with markets for digital goods? More than you might think, and two links connect this weekend’s report from the battlefield between professors and students and a book review by the interesting and insightful jazz critic Devin Leonard. The cheating story is profoundly depressing; the University of Central [...]
Archive for the ‘Paying for nonrival goods’ Category
July 5th, 2010
by Michael O'Hare
Category: Arts and Cultural Policy, Education policy, Management, Paying for nonrival goods, Teaching
Posted: Monday, July 5th, 2010 at
11:12 pm
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May 5th, 2010
by Michael O'Hare
Megan McArdle is the business and economics [sic] editor of the Atlantic. She and I have crossed swords mice before and if she recalls those debates at all probably thinks I have no manners and don’t like her. As to the first, I do wish I were more gracious in person and in print, and [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 at
10:57 pm
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September 4th, 2009
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Health Care, Paying for nonrival goods
We should run parallel systems: the current system driven by the promise of monopoly rents via patent, and a new system of direct public expenditure via public-benefit corporations, grants, and prizes.
Posted: Friday, September 4th, 2009 at
5:42 pm
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March 1st, 2009
by Michael O'Hare
The news news is bad news: my hometown paper is breaking up on the rocks, the LA Times is a shadow of its former self, the Rocky Mountain News is a memory, and the New York Times is on very soft financial ground. Almost every American city is a one-newspaper town, and those surviving papers [...]
Posted: Sunday, March 1st, 2009 at
11:21 pm
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January 6th, 2009
by Michael O'Hare
Category: Economics, Intellectual property, Journalism (Online and Otherwise), Paying for nonrival goods, Policy briefs
The crisis in print journalism seems to be worsening, or at least ripening. It’s not just the incredible shrinking daily paper, but monthly magazines (including Wired, so it’s not outdated content) and it’s not just periodicals but books, and not just print media but music and video. Us shadetree mechanics always look for one specific [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 at
11:38 pm
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February 17th, 2008
by Jonathan Kulick
Category: Income distribution, Paying for nonrival goods
Rothkos aren’t the bargain they were a year ago.
Posted: Sunday, February 17th, 2008 at
1:55 am
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August 8th, 2007
by Michael O'Hare
Category: Paying for nonrival goods, The wayward press
The New York Times appears to be about to stop charging for its opinion articles and archive searches (I only have unsourced assertions and suspicions to support this, but the noise is consistent). Several bloggers are cheering. I am not, and they are wrong. I’m happy to get anything I can for free, but this [...]
Posted: Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 at
12:24 am
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July 28th, 2007
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Paying for nonrival goods
Why is there no civilian counterpart to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency?
Posted: Saturday, July 28th, 2007 at
1:05 pm
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May 26th, 2006
by Michael O'Hare
Category: Paying for nonrival goods
The “generous soul” Mark thanks is, of course, generous not only with his nights staying up over a hot scanner, but also with Watterson’s and Andrews-McMeel’s property. The page he links to is a cultural treasure, a crime, and also a pithy lesson in what’s wrong both practically and morally with our current intellectual property [...]
Posted: Friday, May 26th, 2006 at
10:06 am
5 Comments »
December 29th, 2005
by Michael O'Hare
Category: Paying for nonrival goods
Last fall, I discussed the future of digital media, especially music, and argued for a system in which digital media is free to users, but artists and producers are paid for it with public funds distributed by observing use. The basic idea, articulated in Terry Fisher’s and Lawrence Lessig’s recent books is that a royalty [...]
Posted: Thursday, December 29th, 2005 at
10:09 pm
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