[open-economics] works of Economics in Public Domain

Thu Jan 24 19:59:29 UTC 2013

On 24/01/2013 19:53, Jia Lyng wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Link for open access to several classics of Political Economy:
>
> http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/
>
> which ways to get systematic on collecting all those different sources and
> bringing forward to a wider public?
> best
> jia
>

I started a google spreadsheet for economic texts at:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ah5rUXTj4nHcdElMN25kMHQ1T0NyRlUzT01hb2VPRWc#gid=0
Note that there are two pages (check the tabs at the bottom). The second 
page lists sources for finding texts: Marxists, Archive.org, wikisource etc.

Best

John

>>>>
>>>> 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=**
>>>>> 0Ah5rUXTj4nHcdElMN25kMHQ1T0NyR**lUzT01hb2VPRWc<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ah5rUXTj4nHcdElMN25kMHQ1T0NyRlUzT01hb2VPRWc>
>>>>>
>>>>> (open phil doc at:
>>>>> https://docs.google.com/**spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ams8fpz2_**
>>>>> 77XdHNMeVB4SGsxMi1nQUFneHFKX2l**4T2c&hl=en_GB#gid=0<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<http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/pd-discuss/2013-January/date.html>and
>>>>>> http://lists.okfn.org/**pipermail/pd-discuss/2012-**December/date.html<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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>>>>>>        > Young Scholars Initiative
>>>>>>        > Institute for New Economic Thinking
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>>>>>>        > 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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