On Thursday, September 3, 2009 at 11:13:20 (-0700) Eugene Coyle writes:
>...
>You can use Larry Summers and Brad DeLong on your topic.  They  
>presented a paper at Jackson Hole a few years ago which said this,  
>among other things:
>
>A world in which the information-technology sector is salient is one  
>in which more of the goods that are produced will have the character  
>of pharmaceuticals or books or records, in that they involve very  
>large fixed costs and much smaller marginal costs.
>
>An industry with high fixed costs and near-zero variable costs has  
>another important characteristic: it tends to monopoly.

Doesn't it also tend to government subsidy and protection?


Bill
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