That is the title of my Mercatus working paper (PDF), released yesterday. Basically, it aims to be a short course in public economics for tech policy analysts. Almost all policy wonks have taken Econ 101, perhaps even a graduate version, in which they learn that externalities can cause markets to get prices wrong, and that this can result in market failure. What my paper stresses is that this link, from externality to market failure, is not automatic.
Is there a cybersecurity market failure?
Is there a cybersecurity market failure?
Is there a cybersecurity market failure?
That is the title of my Mercatus working paper (PDF), released yesterday. Basically, it aims to be a short course in public economics for tech policy analysts. Almost all policy wonks have taken Econ 101, perhaps even a graduate version, in which they learn that externalities can cause markets to get prices wrong, and that this can result in market failure. What my paper stresses is that this link, from externality to market failure, is not automatic.