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The State of California is helping to resolve its budget crisis by selling its buildings to the private sector . I hate to sound like a one-note samba, but the Feds will never follow this path: the central government has a printing press that “resolves” all its budgetary issues, while California does

As I think more about “intellectual property” in the form of patents and copyrights, it seems that the implications for social theory are profound. The behavior targeted and slaughtered by IP is one that provides a fuel for all social and economic development: imitation or emulation. (Before I go on, I want to emphatically point to my personal

It’s nice to see A.J. Nock mentioned in the NYT . And, say, isn’t that song “Won’t you come home Bill Buckley” actually written by Murray Rothbard?

Against Intellectual Monopoly might have begun with a story about the failed attempts to stop illegal downloads or the wicked crackdowns on teens for file sharing. Instead the authors take us back to the Industrial Revolution to explode the myth of the supposedly great innovator James Watt and his steam engine. Why? Because, as the introduction

[Chapter 9] How essential are drugs patents as a piece of the machinery of the modern pharmaceutical industry? Incredibly so. Repealing them with no other changes would likely lead to a dismantling of a massive and lucrative industry that saves lives every day. To elaborate, without patents, compensation for the hundreds of millions of dollars

TechDirt reports that car makers are using “intellectual property” as a way of forcing consumers to go to dealers for repairs. For independent companies to do repair, they say, violates their IP in their digital

Not really being into space stuff, I was prepared not to be interested in this. But Jeff Greason’s economic outlook is absolutely spectacular. He really gets it.  

So wonderful to see Tom embrace this medium.  

See this excellent posting by Robert Higgs , who has an eye for these things. He looks at the credit markets to find that there is not calamitous shortage. “The sky is not falling. Lenders continue to lend at high rates, and the economy continues to operate reasonably well.” I’m glad that someone has said it. The only real crisis is the one being

Listen up folks!     Thanks Lew