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backAgainst Intellectual Monopoly against Against Intellectual Property  Right now on Amazon, in the "Intellectual Property" legal books subcategory, my Against Intellectual Property (Amazon link) is ranked #22, and Boldrin and Levine's Against Intellectual Monopoly (Amazon link) is #48. Eat my dust, suckas! :)
Interestingly, both books are available for free online, yet the print editions are still selling well. [Posted at 08/19/2008 01:47 PM by Stephan Kinsella on Against Monopoly Comments Congrats to all three authors. And of course the free online editions along with the sales of the paper editions is another small nail in the coffin of the monopoly formerly known as intellectual property.
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The right to rub smooth using a hardened steel tool with ridges Finally got around to looking at the comments, sorry for delay... Replying to Stephan: I'm sorry at 05/08/2015 08:35 AM by Dan Dobkin
Let's See: Pallas, Pan, Patents, Persephone, Perses, Poseidon, Prometheus... Seems like a kinda bizarre proposal to me. We just need to abolish the patent system, not replace at 04/10/2015 10:44 AM by Stephan Kinsella
The right to rub smooth using a hardened steel tool with ridges I'm a bit confused by this--even if "hired to invent" went away, that would just change the default at 04/10/2015 10:34 AM by Stephan Kinsella
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Rights Violations Aren't the Only Bads I hear that nonsense from pro-IP people all the at 04/07/2014 04:47 AM by Dan McCracken
Intellectual Property Fosters Corporate Concentration Yeah, I see the discouragement of working on a patented device all the time. Great examples at 01/13/2014 06:13 AM by Anonymous
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Patent Lawyers Who Don't Toe the Line Should Be Punished! Moreover "the single most destructive force to innovation is patents".
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Does the decline in total factor productivity explain the drop in innovation? So, if our patent system was "broken," TFP of durable goods should have dropped. Conversely, since at 11/02/2013 08:09 PM by Anonymous
Does the decline in total factor productivity explain the drop in innovation? I wondered about TFP, because I had heard that TFP was increasing. Apparently, it depends on who at 11/02/2013 08:08 PM by Anonymous
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