Why Free Riders Annoy Social Monkeys to No End

In my search for empirical evidence of free riding, I came across this explanation of our aversion to free riders (.mp3 download) from SF author, blogger extraordinaire, and copyright reform activist Cory Doctorow. With some minor tweaking of the language, this clip would probably make a decent grant proposal for graduate research in behavioral economics. The full interview with the Australian Sci Phi Show is here.

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