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Reading Loury's dissertation today, 22 years after he wrote it, is a depressing experience--precisely because the essays were so good and remain so relevant.
Oddly, as visions go, it's not depressing in the least.
One of the depressing things about public discussion of the Microsoft case, even among supposedly well-informed people, is that much of it has come to be dominated by a basically primitive view about what increasing returns do to markets--namely, that they convey monopoly power purely randomly, on whoever happens to be in the right place at the right time--and that this "path dependence" allows clearly inferior technologies to become "locked in."
We've shown that nicotine helps to normalize that signaling by depressing the background but letting the bursts through well,” he says.
This depressing fact has already prompted a welcome cri de coeur from Slate contributor Michael Hirschorn in the newest Brill's Content , where he points out how odd it is that in the wasteland that is the upper reaches of the cable box, there's no room for true international stars like David Beckham, Ronaldo, or Davor Suker.