Asokakumar V writes in TheIndiaForum: As cyber empires tighten control, digital platforms spread unseen violence that colonises the mind. Yet counter-movements are emerging—decentralised tools restoring openness, autonomy, and resistance to censorship. Can people reclaim peace and freedom from the very digital cages that confine them. How these media empies which once stood for liberty and…

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Fractional Ownership and Copyright Licensing: Evidence from the Music Industry | Mostly Economics

Alberto Galasso & El Hadi Caoui in this new NBER paper look at music industry: Creative content is often the product of collaboration, which may lead to fractional ownership of intellectual property. We study the effect of fractional ownership on the licensing of copyrighted material and its reuse. To do so, we compile new data on the…

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A Teacher Writes to Students Series (54): Monetary Economic Bunk | Mostly Economics

A Teacher Writes to Students Series (54): Monetary Economic Bunk Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Department of Economics (Retd.), SRCC, DU Econ students are usually taken for a fantasy ride by neoclassical economic preaching (Keen, 2024). They are not allowed to board the real world bus of alternative, truthful economics. Consider, for example, how the…

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How the US South caught up: A century of manufacturing productivity convergence | Mostly Economics

Alexander Klein, Miguel León-Ledesma and Nicholas Crafts in this voxeu article discuss how US South caught up with US North: Economic historians have long debated whether lagging regions can catch up in productivity with industrial leaders. This column shows that, under the right conditions, such catch-up can be remarkably rapid. Using newly digitised US Census…

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