All Posts Tagged With: "Copyright"

The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives

Without private property rights, people have incentives to overuse an asset. Conflicting private property rights, on the other hand, create a “tragedy of the anti-commons” in which resources are underused, according to Michael Heller. In The Gridlock Economy, he treats the reader to a compelling array of examples of the tragedy of the anti-commons in [...]

19Aug2009 | Art Carden | 0 comments | Continued

Do Patents Encourage or Hinder Innovation? The Case of the Steam Engine

Today one of the most controversial issues in economic policy is that of patent law. Is a patent just an extension of property rights to the realm of ideas? Or is it an unwarranted interference by the government into the rights of individuals?

1Dec2008 | Michele Boldrin, David K. Levine, and Alessandro Nuvolari | 5 comments | Continued

Hierarchy or the Market

Kevin Carson is the author of Studies in Mutualist Political Economy. He blogs at Mutualist Blog: Free Market Anti-Capitalism.
In an article in last June’s Freeman, I applied some ideas from the socialist-calculation debate to the private corporation and examined the extent to which it is an island of calculational chaos in the market economy. I’d [...]

1Apr2008 | Kevin Carson | 0 comments | Continued

Mises on Copyrights

The widespread reproduction and “sharing” of copyrighted music on the Internet led a friend to ask me what Ludwig von Mises would have thought about the situation. The more I pondered the question, the more I concluded that Mises would have considered this just another case where copyright law must play catch-up with new technology.
Many [...]

1Jun2004 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 0 comments | Continued