Monday assorted links
1. Cosmos and Taxis symposium on Boettke and Hayek.
2. Justin Fox on the economics of textbooks. Greg Mankiw comments. I think OER [open educational resources] will do better, and is already doing better, than Greg suggests. A lot of “OER” is simply a mix of unmeasured uses of Google, Wikipedia, and YouTube, rather than a formal non-profit outcompeting the for-profit suppliers on their own terms. I do agree with Greg that “In any event, it is not a good time to be entering the market with a new textbook.”
3. Rain as a source of renewable energy.