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i'm interested to know why you think information is a public good (implying free to access and consume). surely you can't actually believe that.
by tabeth 9y ago
i'm interested to know why you think information is a public good (implying free to access and consume). surely you can't actually believe that.
- dredmorbius 9y agohttp://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/japan/japan.html#SECTION00060000000000000000 http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/japan/japan.h... http://s1.downloadmienphi.net/file/downloadfile6/151/1384343.pdf#page=346 http://s1.downloadmienphi.net/file/downloadfile6/151/1384343... J. Stiglitz's essay on p. 308.
- smichel17 9y ago> surely you can't actually believe that Not the grandparent poster, but I would have preferred if you'd either ommitted this part or provided some justification for why you feel it isn't a ~~public~~ non-rivalrous good.
- dredmorbius 9y agoI am the GP poster. Quite this.
- tabeth 9y agoI defined public information as having the property of: free access. I don't believe information inherently is public for the same reason I believe in privacy. is there public information? sure. there's also private information.
- dredmorbius 9y ago"Public good" has a specific definition in an economic context. The definition you are using is not that.