The OER Knowledge Cloud: Why All Self Respecting Economists Should Support Open Textbooks

Why all self respecting economists should support open textbooks

Published	January 2014
Periodical	Volume 2014, Pages blog- January 14th, 2014
Publisher	Innovation Memes

ABSTRACT

As the title suggests, this post makes the theoretical case for treating online textbooks as a public good, which means that some combination of government and non-profit funding should be used to fund the development and maintenance of open textbooks.

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Other number	December 9th, 2014
Refereed	Does not apply
URL	http://innovationmemes.blogspot.com/2014/01/why-all-self-respecting-economists.html
Access date	December 9th, 2014
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