• A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t Its Copyright? - New York Times
  No one except perhaps Hamilton or Franklin might have imagined that services and intellectual property would become primary fields of endeavor and the chief engines of the economy. Now they are, and it is no more rational to deny them equal status than it would have been to confiscate farms, ropewalks and other forms of property in the 18th century.
  No good case exists for the inequality of real and intellectual property, because no good case can exist for treating with special disfavor the work of the spirit and the mind.
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• Against perpetual copyright - Lessig Wiki
  Copyright in the United States was created for one purpose only: To Promote the Progress of Science of the Useful Arts. That is the definition of Public Good with regard to copyright. In exchange for this Public Good, this promotion of the Useful Arts and Sciences, Congress is granted the authority to grant authors exclusive rights for a limited time to the authors.
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• Aida Edemariam talks to author Joseph Stiglitz about the true cost of the Iraq war | World news | The Guardian
  In 2005, a Nobel prize-winning economist began the painstaking process of calculating the true cost of the Iraq war. In his new book, he reveals how short-sighted budget decisions, cover-ups and a war fought in bad faith will affect us all for decades to come
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• Boing Boing: Giant, amazing study of Free/Open software
  Boing Boing: Giant, amazing study of Free/Open software (tags: software, open source, work, toread, economy)
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• Catch of the day: Cocaine - 09 Feb 2008 - Oceans news - NZ Herald
  People here don't have to work. Every week, sometimes every day, 35kg sacks of cocaine drift in from the sea. The economy of this entire town of 50,000 tranquil souls is addicted to cocaine.
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• Climate change: A guide for the perplexed - earth - 16 May 2007 - New Scientist Environment
  So for those who are not sure what to believe, here is our round-up of the 26 most common climate myths and misconceptions. There is also a guide to assessing the evidence. In the articles we've included lots of links to primary research and major reports for those who want to follow through to the original sources.
  There's a lot at stake with global warming, so for those not sure what to believe, we've debunked the most common climate myths
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• Edge: BETTER THAN FREE By Kevin Kelly
  I see roughly eight categories of intangible value that we buy when we pay for something that could be free. In a real sense, these are eight things that are better than free. Eight uncopyable values. I call them "generatives." A generative value is a quality or attribute that must be generated, grown, cultivated, nurtured. A generative thing can not be copied, cloned, faked, replicated, counterfeited, or reproduced. It is generated uniquely, in place, over time. In the digital arena, generative qualities add value to free copies, and therefore are something that can be sold.
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• End Software Patents: An opportunity to End Software Patents: ESP briefs Court in its historic rehearing of the Bilski case
  "In our brief, the End Software Patents project supports the Supreme Court's long-held position that computer software should not be patentable, and has highlighted to the Court the real economic harm software patents cause the US economy."
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• Kevin Kelly: 1,000 True Fans
  Other than aim for a blockbuster hit, what can an artist do to escape the long tail? A creator ... needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living.
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• Open source workers earn more money - Jobs Centre - www.itnews.com.au
  327 respondents who were working on open source software in either a personal or professional capacity. The majority of them (57 percent) were hobbyists who don't get paid to work on open source. Twenty-four percent were working on open source in their paid job some of the time, while the highest paid segment were the 10 percent working on open source full time.
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• Starting March 6, 2008
  Dan is interested in the decisions people make everyday, such as when shopping, but, unlike a normal economist, as a behavioral economist he doesn't assume that people make decisions rationally. He looks at different facets of life and looks at people's expectations, and their passions (or lack thereof) for work.
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• Stern's grim report
  Stern's grim report (tags: economy, politics, science, nature, ecology)
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• TED | Talks | Yochai Benkler: Open-source economics (video)
  Law professor Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization. By disrupting traditional economic production, copyright law and established competition, they're paving the way for
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• The Economic Consequences of Mr. Bush: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com
  The next president will have to deal with yet another crippling legacy of George W. Bush: the economy. A Nobel laureate, Joseph E. Stiglitz, sees a generation-long struggle to recoup.
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• The End of a 1,400-Year-Old Business
  The world's oldest continuously operating family business ended its impressive run last year. Japanese temple builder Kongo Gumi, in operation under the founders' descendants since 578, succumbed to excess debt and an unfavorable business climate in 2006.
  What entrepreneurs starting family businesses can learn from the demise of Japanese temple builder Kongo Gumi.
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• The Space Review: The billion-dollar space pen
  The Million Dollar Space Pen Myth is just that, a myth. The pens never cost a lot of money and were not developed by wasteful bureaucrats or overactive NASA engineers.
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• Undoing Bush: how to repair eight years of sabotage, bungling, and neglect - Harper's Magazine
  The Constitution by David Cole - The courts by Dahlia Lithwick - Civil service by Ken Silverstein - The environment by Bill McKibben - Science by Chris (Chris C.) Mooney - The economy by Dean Baker - The marketplace of ideas by Jack Hitt - Intelligence by James Bamford - The military by Edward Luttwak - Diplomacy by Anne-Marie Slaughter - The national character by Earl Shorris
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