My review of Chris Anderson's Free: The Future of a Radical Price appeared recently in National Review Online under the title "The Problem With Zero."
As might be expected from someone who believes that property rights and markets are the roads to freedom and innovation, and are the best ways for communities to cooperate, the tone of the review is dyspeptic:
Most of the space is devoted to the point that Anderson and the others in the "information should be free" camp are riffing on the economists' idea that efficiency is achieved when price equals marginal cost, only they fail to understand that this idea is not suitable for home use -- it works only on the blackboard, where capital is completely mobile. Turned loose in the real world, it has done great damage.
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