In October’s Wired, Chris Anderson published “The Long Tail”, an insightful article describing why on-line distribution turns the Law of Scarcity upside down and makes previously obscure works — music, movies, literature — widely available. “Hit-driven economics is a creation…
Economics
Blogging took a leap upwards last week. If these two intellectual heavyweights can make their collaborative blog work, then MSM pundits can give up scoffing at the blogosphere. I’m talking about The Becker-Posner Blog, a partnership between Economics Nobel Prize…
I didn’t get my Economist (the world’s best newspaper, by far, if only for the droll captions) this week, but Sean Aday at the Gadfly did. He points to and discusses an Economist poll of economists, asking them to rate…
