economics

I have recently been on the road so I've hadn't had a chance to address a posting By Dries, founder of the drupal project. Before I do, I think it might be enjoyable to provide some context on my thought about what I think are some important questions.

Ben Hyde makes an interesting point by talking about talent as a resource pool and the economic nature of talent (at least I think this issue is implied if not overtly stated).  Talent without skill and exercise, I think he argues, decays and loses all value  - and Open Source may be a "market" whereby the "talent resource" can find a sustainable way of addressing market imbalances in its acquisition (usually and unfortunately the labor market and hiring tries to do this on the software profession through the context of purchasing skills)

Amartya Sen the Nobel Laureate in economics in 1998 dealt with a question around famine that I have within the context of distribution networks of information. What is social choice when it comes to information and ideas? Are Sen's theories applicable to how information flows, and how do individual acts of creation and consumption of information help us arrive to "cogent aggregative judgments"?