This discussion reveals how knowledge operates as a non-rivalrous public good, indicating its implications for consumption and accessibility.
[Peter Suber has asked](http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/11-02-09.htm), following a long chain of thinking about knowledge as a non-rivalrous form that is inscribed, historically, within rivalrous forms: >What is a public good? In the technical sense used by economists, a public good is non-rivalrous and non-excludable. A good is non-rivalrous when it's undiminished by consumption.
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