institutional structure and patterns of collective action
Movie (motion picture) theaters are not just in the business of showing movies. In the U.S. in 2007, 29% of movie theater revenue came from food and beverage sales (concession sales). Another 6% of revenue came from advertising services, rental of retail space, revenue from coin-operated games and rides, and other revenue.[1] Shares of concession … Continue reading revenue diversification: the example of movie theaters
Here’s a short paper on public library media formats, mainly based on various previous posts. To support Table 1 in the paper, I’ve posted some aggregate data on U.S. public library holdings by media item category, fiscal years 1989 to 2005. Did you know that in 1915, the Morrison-Reeves Library in Richmond, Indiana, had a … Continue reading non-book items in U.S. public libraries
Working across the full data-use chain, rather than just bulk data dissemination, provides better incentives for government data production. … Read the post industrial organization for government communication
Digital forms and ubiquitous networks are greatly increasing opportunities to circulate authored symbolic works. Digitization projects are creating huge online libraries of digitized books that persons around the world can access at zero incremental cost. Storage prices are dropping so rapidly that one small device will soon be able to store all the music that … Continue reading Applying Newton’s Third Law to human behavior: institutions have mass
There is no Chief Executive Officer neuron in a brain. In brains, the most general decision-making processes (top of the executive hierarchy) and the broadest and most abstract representations (top of the perceptual hierarchy) are physically instantiated in the broadest networks of neurons. That’s rather different from the structure of a company in which the … Continue reading the Internet brain