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20 July 2013
'Intellectual Bulwark' Of Austerity Economics Collapses Because Of Three Major Errors
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Amongst economists and those who draw on their thinking, the names Reinhart and Rogoff are well known for work published under the title...
02 June 2011
The Real Legacy of the Hargreaves Report?
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Now that the dust has settled a little on the Hargreaves report, I thought it might be worth revisiting it, but looking at it from a slightl...
27 March 2011
Why Microsoft Costs the World $500 Billion a Year
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Here's another of those entertaining IDC reports commissioned by Microsoft: Today, global research firm IDC issued a new white paper whi...
17 February 2011
The Economic Consequences of Piracy
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I've noted elsewhere that there is a major piece of FUD being put about by content producers: that piracy causes massive damage to a co...
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17 September 2010
BSA's Piracy Numbers: Less than They Seem
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You can argue all you want with words, which are vague and fuzzy, but numbers have hard edges: numbers are facts. Except, of course, they a...
07 July 2010
Exploring Entitlement Economics
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Bradley M. Kuhn has a thought-provoking post with the title "Proprietary Software Licensing Produces No New Value In Society". H...
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14 June 2010
The Economics of Copyright
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One of the problems with the debate around copyright is that it is often fuelled more by feelings than facts. What is sorely lacking is a ha...
28 January 2010
Uncommonly Good Post on the Commons
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Wow: this is the best single post I have ever read on the commons (and I've read a few): The commons as a common paradigm for social mo...
15 January 2010
SABIP Finally Enters 21st Century
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It looks like at least one government department, the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy (SABIP), is starting to get ...
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13 November 2009
The Economics of Ecosystems
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The general area of the economics of ecosystems is something that I have been banging on about for while. Now we have a Web site and even ...
27 October 2009
Biophysical Economics: A Different View
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One of the things that I have felt for a while is that mainstream economics isn't really the best way to look at free software, or any o...
10 June 2009
Ecology, Economics, Sharing
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One of the things that interests me at the moment is the way open source ideas are proving hugely useful when considering areas like economi...
06 January 2009
On the Wikinomics Paradox
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In the long run, what drives the wealth and success of an economy is productivity and efficiency. In my opinion, many of the principles of w...
30 December 2008
Haque on Hacking Economics
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And yes, it's all about openness, collaboration and respect : companies who can build authentic, honest, open, collaborative relationshi...
11 November 2008
The Economic Impact of Software Patents
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The UK's Patent Office – which now goes by the awful name of UK Intellectual Property Office, which means it's really the UK Intelle...
29 May 2008
Taxing Intellectual Monopolies
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Here's an interesting thought : He also reported research that demonstrates patent renewal fees can be used to improve the innovation in...
16 April 2008
Not Economically Viable
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Speaking as a mathematician, I have never understood why economics ignores its environmental effects, since this fundamental error in the mo...
07 January 2008
Paying the Price for Google
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An interesting analogy here between Google and markets - with a nasty ecological payoff that we will all pay for people gaming the system (...
18 November 2007
Internalising Externalities
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One of the problems with most everyday economics is that pollution tends to be regarded as an externality : An externality occurs when a dec...
09 November 2007
Ouch!
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That has got to hurt. (Via Salon .)
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