Au Courant

I recently changed the Creative Commons license on this blog from Attribution-Non Commercial to Attribution, for a number of reasons.
My reasons are all related to a general point of view about commerce, one that is highly unoriginal (having, famously, been well articulated by Adam Smith in 1776) but powerful nonetheless. The profit motive often […]

In this post, I get to be both an economist and a librarian. I want to argue that recessions pose at least two kinds of problems for academic libraries, one of them quite obvious, the other one less so.
The obvious problem is that recessions bring with them reductions in income – the stuff that […]