Wei Dai wrote:
I think we should consider funding information goods (software, movies,
music, etc.) through tax revenue rather than copyrights.
... I'd like to proposed the following scheme:
Whenever someone first accesses a piece of information, he may be chosen
by the access mechanism randomly,
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 02:51:38PM -0400, Robin Hanson wrote:
This would seem to work badly for socially consumed information goods,
like movies or music. If a group of us decides to watch a movie
together, one of us tries to download the movie, at which point he may
be denied. Should this
Seriously, why does tenure exist at all? I know the motivations
for tenure, but why isn't it competed away somehow? I would like
to know what economic process ensures its continued existence.
Fabio
