Monopoly and Competition

Education and social critic Alfie Kohn is an exhaustive researcher and engaging writer.

Hypocrisy in the area of IP is nothing new.

Kodak and Sony End Patent Fight.

Coming across a mention of 3D printers in the

I pointed out in There’s No Such Thing as a Free Patent that “The conventional defense of the

This morning’s New York Times business page reports

I know nothing about the tire market but it seems clear that the unions

One argument against intellectual property is that property rights should be recognized only in scarce (rivalrous) resources.

The issue of whether non-scarce things like thoughts or labor are ownable has arisen in recent debates—see, e.g.,

A free market of alcohol would become a lucrative market for countless people if left in private hands. By monopolizing it, the Russian government takes bread from the mouths of average families.