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False dichotomy. There are other options.

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Information is a pure public good. Finance it as such.

Joseph Stiglitz, "Knowledge as a Global Public Good," in Global Public Goods: International Cooperation in the 21st Century, Inge Kaul, Isabelle Grunberg, Marc A. Stern (eds.), United Nations Development Programme, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 308-325.

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>False dichotomy. There are other options.

I didn't say there were no other options. I just criticised the one option we would very likely end up with by default if advertising were to be curbed somehow.




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