This is Skidelsky’s first volume (1983) in his monumental trilogy charting the life and times of the economist-statesman John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946). It is an excellent work, not overlong, willing to state judgements but always judicious in doing so, full of surrounding detail but never wandering far from its central theme and, perhaps most importantly, [...]
6/10. I can well imagine that this made a wonderful stage play and while there is nothing particularly lacking in this big screen incarnation there is also nothing particularly special.
A while back someone pointed me at an interesting paper by Julie Mortimer and Alan Sorenson entitled, Supply Responses to Digital Distribution: Recorded Music and Live Performances, which they presented at the 2006 AEA conference. I’ve only had a chance to glance through this but it appears to have some interesting data — and some [...]
Having looked around for a while without success for something that would spit out csv files as ascii tables I decided to hack something together. The result is a small python script csv2ascii.py. It is currently fairly crude, for example it just truncates cell text which is too long, but I hope I’ll have [...]
8.5/10. A wonderful film, moving, funny and involving. Finely observed performances, particularly from Kinnear and Collette (especially), do full justice to a beautifully crafted plot and script. While the feel-good ending is never in doubt, we are spared any descent into saccharinaity — something which often mars Hollywood forays into similar territory — and when [...]
The Open Access Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAIPMH) is growing rapidly as the standard web protocol for making metadata, primarily bibliographic information, available online for programmatic access and I’ve long meant to write something that would allow be to pull information down from remote repositories into my local bibliographic database automatically (it would save [...]
About a week ago I finally got around to converting from .doc to html some of my more substantial essays from my schooldays. They’re up at http://www.rufuspollock.org/nonfiction/ and you can find more or less substantial pieces on the Vietnam War, the decline of the Liberal Party in Great Britain in the early 20th century, [...]
Title: Why the music industry may gain from free downloading — The role of sampling
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijindorg.2005.10.006
Authors: Martin Peitz and Patrick Waelbroeck
Journal: International Journal of Industrial Organization, Volume 24, Issue 5 , September 2006, Pages 907-913
Abstract: Downloading digital products for free may harm creators and intermediaries because consumers may no longer [...]
1876-1878 Commision on Copyright. Metadata: http://www.bopcris.ac.uk/bop1833/ref2103.html
My copy came from Cambridge University Library.
Main ReportGeneral Remarks:
Contains summary in appendix of the law up to that point in a form of a digest NO discussion of principles at all and very little hard evidenceTheir comments on existing law (vii, para 7-9):
The [...]
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