Stephen J. Turnbull writes:
> I'm not going to discuss the analysis on FSB. It's a theorem, proved
> in 1926 (IIRC), but the bandwidth-to-education ratio on this topic has
> been near infinity in the past---so I refuse to argue. See Shapiro
> and Varian's _Information Rules_, chapter on "Versioning" for the
> mechanism in the context of software. Then any moderately advanced
> industry economics textbook for "Ramsey pricing" in general. Also
> "price discriminating monopolies." A good one will explain the
> relationship; a side-by-side comparison of the pricing formulae should
> be enough for you though.
David Friedman's _Hidden Order_ is also a good painless introduction
to price theory. And if you're going to be setting prices, in a
business, you ought to understand price theory.
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