The Economics of Information : from Dismal Science to Strange Tales

Information in digital form transforms from a rivalrous to a non-rivalrous good, with profoundly different and counter-intuitive economic properties. This essay reviews five key features of digital goods: renewability, universality, magnetism, friction-free transfer, and vulnerability. Understanding these properties informs enlightened policy goals on everything from copyrights to privacy to identify theft and other information crimes

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Year of publication:	2016
Authors:	Downes, Larry
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Theorie \| Theory \| Informationsökonomik \| Economics of information \| Wirtschaftswissenschaft \| Economics

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (22 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	In: Berin Szoka and Adam Marcus, Editors, The Next Digital Decade: Essays on the Future of the Internet (TechFreedom 2010) Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments January 1, 2011 erstellt
Classification:	K21 - Antitrust Law ; K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law ; L11 - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure Size; Size Distribution of Firms ; L41 - Monopolization; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices ; L52 - Industrial Policy; Sectoral Planning Methods ; L96 - Telecommunications ; B4 - Economic Methodology ; D23 - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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