More on Prices as Property
20 September 2007 at 8:50 am Peter G. Klein 1 comment
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We discussed earlier the status of price information as intellectual property. (We were skeptical.) Now we learn from Michael Perelman that Harvard’s Coop (bookstore) is ejecting students who take “a lot of notes” about book prices, on the grounds that the Coop “owns” the prices. Ouch.
I’m pondering the Hayekian implications. Will the Coop also claim that it owns the knowledge embodied in those prices?
Update: See also the links provided by Tim Swanson here.
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ad | 20 September 2007 at 12:50 pm
If they put so much effort into hiding their prices, I can only assume that is because they are high.
I also assume that the average Harvard student is bright enough to figure this out.