I’ve now posted my slides from the Musicans, Fans and Online Copyright event which took place last Wednesday at LSE. They can be found on this site:
http://rufuspollock.org/economics/papers/musicians_fans_and_online_copyright_20080319/
I’ve just posted some early stage notes on models related to ‘Complex Systems’ with a particular eye towards those dealing with self-ordered criticality.
For anyone with an interest in copyright issues, particularly in the online environment, there is an excellent event on today at the LSE organized by Ian Brown of the OII and at which I’ll be speaking (briefly) on the subject of “How can we maximise copyright’s return to society?” More details below.
Musicians, fans and [...]A definition: the term ‘knowledge’ is here used broadly to signify all forms of information production including those involved in technological innovation, cultural creativity and academic advance.
Largely as a result of better ICT we now have available some very substantial datasets regarding both the extent and structure of knowledge production across different jurisdictions and [...]
Following on from the second workshop a month ago, today saw the third in the series of “Workshops on Well-being” take place at the LSE. This time the presentation was given by Andrew Clark of PSE. Below are some (very) impressionistic notes.
Presentation by Andrew Clark on Job Satisfaction: What do we Know [...]The second (or third depending on how you are counting) Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) which is organized by the Open Knowledge Foundation and which I help coordinate is on tomorrow at LSE in London.
There are a lot of good sessions and so if you are interested in open knowledge [...]
Update: my slides from a presentation at the European Commission in May 2008 are now online
The research report entitled Models of Public Sector Information Provision via Trading Funds was published today to coincide with its mention in the budget (para 3.49). This report was commissioned by HMT and BERR and jointly [...]
Recently I randomly came across this (fairly old) post from an environmentalist who was getting excited about Google’s sketchup. As I wrote in a comment on their blog:
I applaud your support for “an economic model that works by sharing rather than hiding” as well as your appreciation for the “power of open source” [...]
I was much much struck by generally pessimistic tone of Gregory Clark’s lengthy review in the JEL’s September issue of Avner Greif’s Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy. These comments have wider implications for the application of economic tools (especially game theory) to the analysis of historical outcomes, particularly in relation to [...]
Originally status would have developed from some kind of of stimulus-response setup:
Beating Competitor | V Higher Status | V Better Access to ‘Resources’ (e.g. Food and Partners) | V Higher Survival Rate / More Progeny etc | V Development of Reward System(s) for these outcomes (Food etc) | | (short-circuiting | as with e.g. [...]About
Dr. Rufus Pollock is co-Founder and Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation, a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, and an Associate of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge.
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