One of the popular forms of price discrimination for software services/platforms these days is freemium. This is where there is a free product offered alongside a premium product. For online storage and backup, this has been a familiar strategy used by start-ups such as a Dropbox but also established firms such as Google, Microsoft and …
A new type of scholarly journal boycott
We have seen numerous boycott calls with regard to academic publishers but they have generally been about market power and its exploitation. Today, a more serious boycott call was launched with the claim that some publications are harming science itself -- a potentially more serious charge. The call comes from this year's medicine Nobel prize …
Some simple economics of drone delivery
My knowledge of drones being used for the delivery of small packages is limited to the Amazon inspired puffery that has flooded the Internet this morning. From my reading, people think it is (a) cool and (b) something that may be the undoing of Amazon competitively. I’ll agree with (a) but that is true of …
Digitopoly 