From: Thomas Krichel <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 03:11:42 +0000

Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]> writes

> My understanding is that SSRN has been a privately-owned, for-profit
> operation from the beginning.

Sure. And that was a motivation for us to continue with RePEc. Even
though the original founders were economics professors we were able
to preserve a non-commercial working papers culture in economics,
effectively blocking SSRN in their home turf.

Socarxiv looks opaque in terms of ownership. I certainly would
not promote it.

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