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Network externality : an uncommon tragedy
- S. Liebowitz, Stephen E. Margolis
- Economics
- 1 May 1994
Economists have defined 'network externality' and have examined putative inframarginal market failures associated with it. This paper distinguishes between network effects and network externalities,…
Path Dependence, Lock-In, and History
- S. Liebowitz, Stephen Margolis
- Economics
- 9 April 1995
Do economies and markets make remediable errors in the choice of products? Does the economy "lock-in" to these incorrect choices even when the knowledge that these choices are incorrect is readily…
Copying and Indirect Appropriability: Photocopying of Journals
- S. Liebowitz
- Computer ScienceJournal of Political Economy
- 1 October 1985
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Assessing the Relative Impacts of Economic Journals
- S. Liebowitz, J. Palmer
- Economics
- 1984
A CADEMIC JOURNALS have played an increasingly important role in the dissemination of scientific information throughout this century, particularly during the last decade.1 This fact is no less true…
File Sharing: Creative Destruction or Just Plain Destruction?*
- S. Liebowitz
- EconomicsThe Journal of Law and Economics
- 1 April 2006
The sharing of sound recordings over the Internet is the newest controversy in a long-running battle between copyright owners and copying technologies. In order to provide some context, perspective,…
The Fable of the Keys
- S. Liebowitz, Stephen E. Margolis
- EconomicsThe Journal of Law and Economics
- 1 April 1990
This paper examines the history of the QWERTY typewriter keyboard, often put forward as the archetypical case of markets choosing the wrong standard. Contrary to the claims made by Paul David and…
Research Note - Testing File Sharing's Impact on Music Album Sales in Cities
- S. Liebowitz
- EconomicsManag. Sci.
- 1 April 2008
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Will Mp3 Downloads Annihilate the Record Industry? The Evidence so Far
- S. Liebowitz
- Business
- 1 June 2003
ARE NETWORK EXTERNALITIES A NEW SOURCE OF MARKET FAILURE
- S. Liebowitz, Stephen E. Margolis
- History
- 1995
, Vol. 17 1995, Pp. 1-22 S. J. Liebowitz Stephen E. Margolis S. J. Liebowitz: Management School, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75083 Stephen E. Margolis: Department of Economics,…
Economists Examine File-Sharing and Music Sales
- S. Liebowitz
- Economics
- 3 May 2005
The decline in sales of music CDs and the recording industry’s attempts to reverse the decline have been much in the news over the last few years. Since this decline began at the same time that…
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