Sponsoring Public Goods: The Case of CAI on the PC
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- professional information
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Economic Education
- Vol. 22 (1) , 39-53
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00220485.1991.10844697
Abstract
There is a shortage of quality educational software because these materials are public goods: The marginal costs of making the materials available is negligible and nonpurchasers cannot be easily excluded from consuming the product. These problems and strategies for overcoming them are discussed.Keywords
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