Nicholas Snow

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07/20/2006 Mises Daily Nicholas Snow

Nicholas Snow explores Frédéric Bastiat’s theory that an invention goes through three stages. Patents prolong the first stage with a grant of government privilege.

Cars and Its Attack on Progress

07/04/2006 Mises Daily Nicholas Snow Claire Popovich

Pixar’s latest flick, Cars, is kid-friendly, but it fails to carry over to adults the capitalist themes of previous productions.Three Mises Institute summer fellows explain.

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