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- adjective economics Not
rivalrous .
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Examples
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It seems to me that saying ideas are a nonrivalrous component of wealth generation is like saying that protons are an (essentially) nonrivalrous component of manufacture.
Ideas and Growth, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Even for the nonrivalrous good, destroying the right to exclude has taken away much of the incentive to invest.
Intellectual Property, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Producing information involves producing a nonrivalrous public good with a lot of possible externalities.
Archive 2009-02-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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For Romer knowledge is nonrivalrous and nonexcludable.
Bruno Leoni vs. Paul Romer, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The two characteristics of a public good are that it be nonrivalrous and nonexcludeable.
Your Zip Code or Yourself, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Ensuring that the state only implement good regulations is nonrivalrous, in that if anyone uses their resources to ensure that the state only implements good regulation, everyone benefits.
Your Zip Code or Yourself, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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These sorts of acts may not necessarily do well with the pairing of the free nonrivalrous/expensive rivalrous goods.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Do Markets Give Us Too Few Choices? 2007
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And the output of a composer is almost by definition purely nonrivalrous.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Do Markets Give Us Too Few Choices? 2007
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If property lawin land and in goodsalso legitimately protects the right to exclude, not just as a way of protecting the right to use but also as a way to give people enough incentive to invest time and effort, then intellectual property law does make sense even if such property is nonrivalrous.
Scrivener's Error 2003
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The "intellectual property," the information that constitutes the MP3 file, is not a pure private good, because consumption is nonrivalrous.
Scrivener's Error 2003
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