[open-economics] works of Economics in Public Domain

Fri Jan 4 13:24:37 UTC 2013

Hi all,

Okay, I've taken the plunge, and started a google spreadsheet to list 
open economics texts, along the lines of that started by Open Philosophy:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ah5rUXTj4nHcdElMN25kMHQ1T0NyRlUzT01hb2VPRWc

(open phil doc at:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ams8fpz2_77XdHNMeVB4SGsxMi1nQUFneHFKX2l4T2c&hl=en_GB#gid=0 
)

I've put some entries in, but just as samples really. Please jump in and 
add what you can.

Hopefully, when the spreadsheet has been populated, we can look at doing 
something similar to Open Philosophy with the texts.

John

On 04/01/2013 11:01, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> There have been numerous threads on which authors' works enter the
> public domain in 2013 on our pd-discuss mailing list [1]. Presumably
> economics authors would be a subset of this.
>
> It depends on which jurisdiction you're in, but if you're in a country
> where death + 70 years applies, you could try looking for economists
> that died in 1942 on DBpedia.
>
> Would be curious to hear how you get on!
>
> All the best,
>
> Jonathan
>
> [1] E.g. see:
> http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/pd-discuss/2013-January/date.html and
> http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/pd-discuss/2012-December/date.html
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 2:09 PM, John Levin <john at anterotesis.com
> <mailto:john at anterotesis.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     On 02/01/2013 12:36, Jia Lyng wrote:
>      > Hi everybody, Happy New Year!
>      > And Happy 2013 Public Domain new additions!
>      >
>      > I just got an inquiry from my other Econ networks, asking about
>     authors
>      > and works of economics accessible as public domain. Do you have
>     such a
>      > database?
>      >
>      > All best wishes,
>      > jia
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>      >
>
>     Compiling (and mining) such a list is something I have wanted to do
>     for a while. As far as I know, although there are many digitizations
>     freely available on the net (eg on archive.org <http://archive.org>
>     & google books), there isn't actually a database of them.
>
>     I'm waiting to see how open philosophy http://openphilosophy.org/
>     and textus http://textusproject.org/ work; they could be the example
>     to follow.
>
>     Although, of course, if there's sufficient interest now, I'd be very
>     happy to work on such a project immediately.
>
>     John
>

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