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Why all self respecting economists should support open textbooks
Beshears, Fred

PublishedJanuary 2014
PeriodicalVolume 2014, Pages blog- January 14th, 2014
PublisherInnovation Memes

ABSTRACT
As the title suggests, this post makes the theoretical case for treating online textbooks as a public good, which means that some combination of government and non-profit funding should be used to fund the development and maintenance of open textbooks.

Keywords copyright · libraries ·  · open textbooks

Other numberDecember 9th, 2014
RefereedDoes not apply
URLhttp://innovationmemes.blogspot.com/2014/01/why-all-self-respecting-economists.html
Access dateDecember 9th, 2014
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