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- Linking and Free Content? It's the Old Features Vs. Benefits
- I had an epiphany while reading Virginia Postrel's New York Times Sunday Book Review piece on Chris Anderson's Free: The Future of a Radical Price. Postrel was going through what has become a fairly common discussion of the book and the ideas of cross-subsidy (giving away in one place to...
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
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- Richard Florida, Virginia Postrel, and FT Editor- In-Chief Andrew Gowers Featured at Rotman School Conference.
- Byline: Rotman School of Management TORONTO, May 31 AScribe Newswire -- Social commentator Virginia Postrel and 'creative class' economist Richard Florida are among the speakers at 20:20 Vision - What Will the [Business] World Look Like in 2020?, a conference for business leaders organized...
- Research articles 2005-05-31
- From the editor
- `The most important challenge to individual freedom today is not the ideology of egalitarianism but the ideology of stasis: the notion that the good society is one of stability, predictability, and control. The role of the state, in this view, is not so much to reallocate wealth as it is...
- Research articles 2003-03-01
- Design Puzzles - Why Do Outdoor Coffee Tables Have Four Legs?
- Prof. Steven Postrel has a good post over at Organization and Markets about why some entrepreneurial opportunities go unsatisfied. His example is why outdoor coffee tables have four legs instead of three, when its "obvious" that three legs would make the table rock less. He concludes with the following design...
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- The Importance of Weak Ties
- A weak tie for me is an email-only or phone-only relationship with someone. The weak ties in your network are important and underrated. Virginia Postrel, in this Forbes article on networks, reminds us that people usually find jobs not through their close friends but through their weak ties. Excerpt:To...
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Linear thinking - seminars on urban planning and marriage
- In which our man in Washington contemplates the virtues of urban planning, literacy, and marriage Date: Sat, February 20, 1999 4:49:49 PM From: mlynch@reasondc.org Subj: TOD Declared DOA in D.C. A few days back, I received an e-mail: "After reading Virginia Postrel's recent editorial on smart growth," a...
- Research articles 1999-05-01
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