Free : the future of a radical price

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Anderson, Chris, 1961- (Author)
Format Book
LanguageEnglish
Published New York : Hyperion, 2009
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ISBN9781401322908
Physical Descriptionx, 274 s. : il. ; 25 cm

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Table of Contents:
  • What's free?
  • Free 101 : a short course on a most misunderstood word
  • The history of "free" : zero, lunch and the enemies of capitalism
  • The psychology of free : it feels good. Too good?
  • Too cheap to matter : when something halves in price each year, zero is inevitable
  • "Information wants to be free" : the history of a phrase that defined the digital age
  • Competing with free : Microsoft learned how to do it over decades, but Yahoo had just months
  • De-monitization : Google and the birth of a 21st century economic model
  • The new media models : free media is nothing new. What is new is the expansion of that model to everything else
  • How big is the free economy? : There's more to it than just dollars and cents
  • Waste is (sometimes) good : the best way to exploit abundance is to relinquish control
  • Econ 000 : how a century-old joke became the law of digital economics
  • "You get what you pay for" : and other doubts about free
  • Non-monetary economies : where money doesn't rule, what does?
  • Free world : China and Brazil are the frontiers of free. What can we learn from them?
  • Imagining abundance : science fiction as a thought experiment in "post-scarcity" societies
  • Coda
  • Free rules
  • The 10 principles of abundance thinking