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The Mission Playground Incident

Does this four-and-one-half-minute video depict a Tragedy of the Commons? Does it falsify or confirm the main tenets of the Coase Theorem? After all, “transaction costs” are low, yet we don’t we see any Coasean bargaining in this situation, or do we …? At last count (12 … Continue reading

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The tragedy of the broadband commons?

Does the policy of “network neutrality” or NN really make any economic sense? Does NN not lead to a tragedy of the broadband commons? Consider the Google Fiber project in Kansas City, Missouri. For Google Fiber to work, Google needs to … Continue reading

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