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May 21, 2005
NYT: For Further Reading
Posted by Ernest Miller
This morning I was reading the NY Times editorial page (something I'll probably have to give up soon) when I noticed something cool about one of the columns. Not something actually in the column, which is somewhat pedestrian and stretches for a patronizing analogy to Star Wars, but at the very end of the column (Darth Vader's Family Values). The column refers to a working paper by Daniel Klein and then, at the end of the column under "For Further Reading," links to the working paper so that readers can download and read it themselves (Ratio Working Papers No 31: The People’s Romance: Why People Love Government (as much as they do)). Has the NY Times done this before? If so, I haven't noticed it, but it is very cool. It is not only good for the audience, but it is likely that Klein is pretty happy to have more people read his work in the original.
The column also discusses Adam Smith and there are links to the Amazon.com versions of a couple of his books. Hey, link to Amazon.com, but why not also link to the free versions on the web? Project Gutenberg, among others, has The Wealth of Nations and there are numerous copies of The Theory of Moral Sentiments online as well.
Online newspapers would be far more useful if they linked to the primary sources as well as additional resources much more often.
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Ernest Miller pursues research and writing on cyberlaw, intellectual property, and First Amendment issues. Mr. Miller attended the U.S. Naval Academy before attending Yale Law School, where he was president and co-founder of the Law and Technology Society, and founded the technology law and policy news site LawMeme. He is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
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