This post over at Everybody’s Libraries captures, I think, the things I like about FRBR, while neatly throwing out the things I don’t. Go read it, it’s fun; I’m going to toy around with its concepts below. So — instead of being keen on the “work, expression, manifestation, item” idea — Ockerbloom’s model seems to [...]
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Create Your Own Economy (part I?)
August 13th, 2009 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
I’ve just started reading Tyler Cowen’s new book, Create Your Own Economy. (That is to say, I’ve just finished Chapter 1.) I should preface this by saying that Cowen is one of my great intellectual crushes and his blog, Marginal Revolution, has taught me a lot and strongly influenced my thinking on some matters (as [...]
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