Review of Patent Trolls: Predatory Litigation and the Smothering of Innovation by William J. Watkins, Jr.
Watkins paints a very strong case against trolls, while pointing out some of their supposed benefits.
Watkins paints a very strong case against trolls, while pointing out some of their supposed benefits.
Nell says that Austrians are too often motivated—and constrained—by the search for free-market conclusions, leading them to neglect both the problems of unregulated markets and the promise of alternative forms of organization.
In this paper, a “praxeology of coercion,” or, more precisely, an analysis of interpersonal actions involving threats, is developed. This is an attempt to further the analysis of human action as defined by Mises.
Journal publications are used to rank institutions by research productivity in Austrian economics. An incidental byproduct is a ranking of scholars in the Austrian school.
The aim of the article is to refine the Austrian business cycle theory by discussing the effect of changes in banks’ asset structure on the business cycle.
This paper argues that it may be misleading to search for a direct causal effect of interest rates on the length of production because another, related factor affects it more directly. We name this factor intertemporal labor intensity...
Wu has written an outline of international price theories that map the theoretical development of international economics. It is a major achievement.
Prison gangs have emerged in recent decades to provide security, property enforcement, and conflict adjudication when formal government enforcers explicitly failed to provide such for inmates behind bars.
Peddling Protectionism is a real gem. Irwin does not mince words, and he ably tosses aside misconceptions of Smoot-Hawley and replaces them with objective economic analysis.
The primary purpose of this publication is to provide clear information and supporting evidence about choices in insurance regulation in a format that is accessible and meaningful to policymakers and consumers.