Education in a Changing Environment
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In order to frame this question, and as a rhetorical device, I would like to set up a straw target as a caricature of what a closed system could look like. Central to the idea of a closed system is the concept of intellectual property as the equivalent of physical property, understood as owned in terms of some sort of title, either by an individual or corporate group, and available for sale or rent in order to achieve a material return on the investment. This, of course, is the classic rent seeking activity of economic theory.
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