id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-14670 Heckart, Ronald J. The Library as a Marketplace of Ideas 1991-11-01 16 .pdf application/pdf 9939 484 56 There is no reason why a person of modest power or wealth might not have good ideas, or why he or she should be hindered in advancing those ideas in the market solely because of a lack of power or wealth. Still another stance is to assert with Karl R. Popper that while we can never be sure that we know the truth, we can root out falsity with certainty, and the best way to do this is a free trade in ideas.8 Irrespective of epistomological stance, the marketplace of ideas concept is an example of process theory. cache/crl-14670.pdf txt/crl-14670.txt