An early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns. (Joseph Stiglitz)

An early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns.

Joseph Stiglitz

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