Nicholas Gruen on Government as Impresario: Emergent Public Goods & Public Private Partnerships 2.0
Channel: The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Date: 2014-01-14

We're used to thinking that public goods must be produced by governments. But there's a fundamental and growing class of public goods that emerge from private interaction. Today emergent public goods -- Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia -- burgeon on the internet ushering in a new age. But there must exist a panoply of public goods which could be brought into existence by the right kind of partnership between private and public endeavor. In this talk, Nicholas Gruen -- a widely published policy economist, entrepreneur and commentator who has been a regular columnist in the Courier Mail, the Australian Financial Review, the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald -- explores the economic basis for public/private partnerships, and shares examples of innovative partnerships that thrive in the internet age.

More info on this event here: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/01/gruen