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Optimal Citation in the Google Age

Two from Will Wilkinson

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Not on Fire for Kindle

Chris Anderson Podcast on Economics of "Free"

Wilkinson and Shirky

Creating a Life: Why Bad Publicity Wasn't Good Publicity

Costs and Benefits of the Patent System

What is Revolutionary Science?

Hal Varian on Modern Capital

Advertising: What Is Not Seen

The Internet, New York, Detroit, and House Concerts

Kindle-nomics

Woodheads and Spam

Paul Graham on Software Patents

Viacom vs. Google/YouTube

Online Content Bundling

Drug Patents

The Internet, Punditry, and Scholarship

Optimal Citation in the Google Age

Two from Will Wilkinson

David Friedman on Property Rights

Unchecked Government Marches On

Not on Fire for Kindle

Chris Anderson Podcast on Economics of "Free"

Wilkinson and Shirky

Creating a Life: Why Bad Publicity Wasn't Good Publicity

Costs and Benefits of the Patent System

What is Revolutionary Science?

Hal Varian on Modern Capital

Advertising: What Is Not Seen

The Internet, New York, Detroit, and House Concerts

Kindle-nomics

Woodheads and Spam

Paul Graham on Software Patents

Viacom vs. Google/YouTube

Online Content Bundling

Drug Patents

The Internet, Punditry, and Scholarship

Journalism, Blogging, and Truth

Silent Signals

True Love and the International Marriage Market

Prediction Markets?

A Nice Statement of My Position on IP

The Anti-IP Crusaders

The Future of Mass Media

The Mystery of Classism

Eschew Sesquipedalian Obsfucation

Intellectual Property Absolutism vs. Pragmatism

Don't Call Me Stupid

In Search of Another Theory of Missing Insurance Markets

Crashing Into Stereotypes

Contrarian Like a Conformist

The Food Court Economy

Economics of New York City

Detect Lie

Siegel for the Long Run

Normality Signaling: A Test Case

Second Thoughts About Stats vs. Personal Experience

Hanson Link Fix

Terrorism Betting Markets: Inquiring Minds Know

Why Be Normal?

Death of Newspapers

Giles and Stereotype Accuracy

Pricing and Marginal Cost

Lovecraft, Sutter, and the Media

Nobel Prize-Winner Makes Intermediate Error

The Long Tail

Becker-Posner on Drug Patents

Cost of Digital Storage

Ideas and Growth

Barbell Labor Market?

Copyright Law and Utilitarianism

Red Sox Technologies

Intellectual Property

Government and Research

Hayekians vs. Stiglitzians

Intellectual Property

Economics of Content

Robots and Comparative Advantage

Information Goods and Income Distribution

Terrorism Futures

Price Discrimination and Information

Drug Price Discrimination?

Comment of the Week, 04-09-03

Lessig on Copyright

Anti-anti-economics

Is Copyright Necessary?

The Economics of Web Logs


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August 11, 2008

Optimal Citation in the Google Age



One of the best examples of path-dependence is the format of academic citations. Who cares what city a book was......MORE

August 4, 2008

Two from Will Wilkinson



He suggests that there are no limits to growth. In a special issue of the American Economic Review about thirty......MORE

July 8, 2008

David Friedman on Property Rights



He wrote, The right to decide whether or not I turn on the lights in my house is worth more......MORE

May 22, 2008

Unchecked Government Marches On



Without irony, the Washington Post headline blares, FTC Wants to Know What Big Brother Knows About You The crime under......MORE

May 18, 2008

Not on Fire for Kindle



[UPDATE: I found the web browser on the Kindle. You have to go to the Kindle home, select menu, then......MORE

May 12, 2008

Chris Anderson Podcast on Economics of "Free"



There are several interesting topics covered in this podcast between Russ Roberts and Chris Anderson. The general topic is the......MORE

April 22, 2008

Wilkinson and Shirky



Want to see two bright, good-looking guys discuss economics and media? Then watch the latest episode of Free Will, with......MORE

April 20, 2008

Creating a Life: Why Bad Publicity Wasn't Good Publicity



I really enjoyed Sylvia Hewlett's Creating a Life, but feminists were outraged. (Check out all the 1-star reviews on Amazon).......MORE

March 17, 2008

Costs and Benefits of the Patent System



Patent Failure is a new book by James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer. Here is a lecture by Bessen. The......MORE

March 10, 2008

What is Revolutionary Science?



Bruce Charlton and Peter Andras write, a research foundation working in a specific scientific field might at present spend 100......MORE

February 6, 2008

Hal Varian on Modern Capital



He writes, The only thing one could do with those railroad tracks was carry trains. It would have been fantastic......MORE

January 23, 2008

Advertising: What Is Not Seen



Here's a gem from the first article in Henderson's Concise Encyclopedia of Economics:The rise of the self-service store, for example,......MORE

January 7, 2008

The Internet, New York, Detroit, and House Concerts



Edward L. Glaeser and Giacomo A.M. Ponsetto write, This paper advances the hypothesis that improvements in transportation and communica- tion......MORE

November 20, 2007

Kindle-nomics



Joel Johnson writes, the $400 premium just to get the Kindle reader isn't the last fee you'll pay. I'm not......MORE

August 5, 2007

Woodheads and Spam



Steve Hsu writes, Both the malware and spam problems are a kind of tax on the overall internet population caused......MORE

April 13, 2007

Paul Graham on Software Patents



A commenter on a previous post mentioned a couple of essays by Paul Graham. He is one of my favorite......MORE

March 15, 2007

Viacom vs. Google/YouTube



Paul Kedrosky writes, if Viacom wins this suit and busts YouTube--and there is a very good chance it will win;......MORE

March 5, 2007

Online Content Bundling



Steve Levitt asks In general, it doesn’t seem like a good idea to give your product away if you are......MORE

February 19, 2007

Drug Patents



This week's econtalk, featuring Richard Epstein talking about patent issues with respect to pharmaceuticals, I found to be really taxing......MORE

January 26, 2007

The Internet, Punditry, and Scholarship



My latest essay includes an analysis of the comparative advantage that I have using the Internet. The Net boosts my......MORE


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