The Economics of the Internet, Information Goods,
Intellectual Property and Related Issues
Compiled by Hal R. Varian
Tools For Viewing Files
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Accounting & Measuring Traffic
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Announcements
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Background and Reference
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Electronic Commerce
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Electronic Publishing
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Government Resources
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Intellectual Property
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International
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Intranets
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Miscellaneous Resources
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Network Economics
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Policy and Law
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Pricing
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Security, Privacy and Encryption
If the Web and the Net can be viewed as spaces in which we will increasingly live our lives, the economic laws we will live under have to be natural to this new space. These laws turn out to be quite different from what the old economics teaches...
Consider an [arbitrary] piece of code. It's indoors, it's well behaved, and you can be proud of it. What is it about that code that you like? Is it elegant? Is it clever? Does it enable something? How would you measure the value of code?