even libertarian or free marketeers—advocating taxpayer-funded “medical innovation prizes” to supplement or replace the current patent system—e.g., Alex started . Perhaps a progressive-libertarian alliance can force economists/policy makers to take this issue seriously. I think you’ve got the conversation
From How Judges, Bureaucrats and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk In “ Patent Failure; How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put is in the details. The authors readily admit that “In presenting this list of policy ideas, we admit that we really do not know what it will take to substantially improve patent notice. These policy reforms move us in the direction of an effective patent system, but we do not
It can of course be useful to point out harmful consequences of various policies, if only to engage advocates of same on their own turf. Thus in There’s No provided by startups. More generally, the authors are unable to observe the innovative productivity or financial performance of public firms in an alternative, attention in Bessen and Meurer’s article), the patent system also aims to foster innovation through the disclosure of information about new inventions (in detailed
the global economy. Now that engine has been derailed by the reckless monetary policies of the Fed and by shortsighted financial innovation. When equity bubbles collapse; everybody pays. Demand for goods and
reason: “What’s missing in most analysis is the impact of inflationary monetary policy. Since 2001, and especially since September 2007 - when the Fed started directly controls. Unfortunately, because of globalization and financial-market innovation, money itself has become hard to measure and useless as a forecasting
do, and what monetarists’ critics at the time, wedded to the view that monetary policy was ineffective, and that inflation was entirely caused by OPEC (or by unions, or by anything except monetary policy) insisted it could not do. And yet your friend imagines that the experience the course of the 70s and early 80s, when high inflation led to numerous financial innovations, including the emergence of new financial assets that competed with and
but it oppresses the poor. 2. Competition in Education. Competition encourages innovation and leads to better educational outcomes . Affluent suburban schools and Jerry Hausman and Ephraim Leibtag have argued that the benefits of Wal-Mart’s policy of “Every Day Low Prices” have accrued disproportionately to poor households .
fosters real and practical tyranny, it ought to be checked [T]he transferring policy seems to suppose that the public has no property; and though legislatures have oppress, must on the contrary be weak for the object of preserving libertyEvery innovation which weakens the limitations and divisions of power, alone able to make a
I wonder what Mr. Bernanke’s going to be doing. But what it amounts to is the same policy that they’ve always employed when they get a small so-called crisis; instead one to you if I may briefly. It says — he said the following back in 2003, 2004, “Innovation has brought about a multitude of new products such as sub-prime loans and
implicit scientism. In his confused attempt to weigh in on legal and economic and policy issues he reminded me a bit of physicist Fritjof Capra’s New Agey The Tao of patent and copyright. Again, IP undercuts and infringes property rights, and harms innovation (see here , here , here , here )–if he realized this, he would not set up
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