Information Rules

I just bought 4 books off of Amazon and got them today: Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning. Highly recommended overview of math by some HNers so I figured I would check it out. Venture capitalists at work. I didn't realize there were more "at work" series books other than coders and founders, so this one sounds right up my alley. Information Rules, a book that's supposedly dated on economics and how it applies to the internet world. Recommended on Chris Dixon's blog and looked interesting. Thought I might get some new insights to bitcoin or something with it. And Walter Isaacson's new book, the innovators.

I highly recommend a commonly ignored part of economics and that is the economics of goods with zero marginal cost of production. The two key texts in this area are: Yochai Benkler's "The Wealth of Networks" -- This text is a bit dated (2005) and the first two chapters couldn't be more dry and boring, but after that the economic discussion in the book about how economics changes when the marginal cost of product reaches zero or near-zero is fascinating. Hal Varian's "Information Rules" -- This book covers the same ground at Yochai's book, but is less academic in tone. FYI, Varian is Google's chief economist.