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On March 22, 2023, thousands of researchers and tech leaders – including Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak – published an open letter calling to slow down the artificial intelligence race.

Euphoria over an impending COVID vaccine obscures the free-rider problem lurking behind it. Free-riding, the choice by some to avoid vaccination while the larger population receives it, was going to ...

On March 22, 2023, thousands of researchers and tech leaders – including Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak – published an open letter calling to slow down the artificial intelligence race.

While this may be a compelling argument to some, it has little bearing on the actual purpose of the individual mandate. The biggest problem with the “free rider” argument for the mandate is that it ...

Access these resources as a member - it's free! In speaking about the Affordable Care Act, Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) discussed the concept of "free-riders" and young people buying health insurance. In ...

Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "A Sampling Approach to the Free-Rider Problem." In Essays in Public Economics: The Kiryat Anavim Papers, edited by Agnar Sandmo. Lexington, MA: Lexington ...

We report the results of an experiment that investigates free riding in the accumulation of durable public goods. We consider economies with reversibility, where contributions can be positive or ...

Political influence by a professional association, like the influence of any special interest group, is a collective good for the members of the profession. This paper investigates the variables ...