[open-economics] works of Economics in Public Domain

[Guo Xu]

This sounds great --

The problem I guess with econ is that it's - when excluding the more
philosophical earlier contributions - a fairly young discipline. As
far as I know, the Journal of Political Economy for example, is one of
the oldest journals and started only 1892.

Would those journal articles also enter the public domain when death +
70 years apply?

Guo

On 4 January 2013 14:24, John Levin <john at anterotesis.com> wrote:
> 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
>>      > --
>>      > Berlin Chapter
>>      > Young Scholars Initiative
>>      > Institute for New Economic Thinking
>>      > +49 (0) 157 887 44 884 <tel:%2B49%20%280%29%20157%20887%2044%20884>
>>      > twitter: @YSIBerlin
>>      >
>>
>>     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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