understand math and science . Yawn. But mainly I think it is a lack of rigor; a failure to appreciate the problems with scientism and positivism. It always seemed to of Misesian insights into the nature of science. In The Moral Case for the Free Market Economy , Tibor Machan touches on these issues. Machan rejects the type of
social and economic legislation of the late 19th century . . . were doomed to failure; they were hasty intrusions, and they contradicted the deeper genius of the production of law undermines the private property arrangements that support a free market system”). An interesting discussion of, inter alia , the debate on whether to
gets the monopoly. Absent patents, they would all be able to take products to market. They all benefit already from the accumulated body of human knowledge that that can create very serious problems in those who have it — including kidney failure and heart attacks. Genzyme holds the patent on Fabrazyme, but has a problem:
specifically, that rational calculation becomes impossible whenever no external market exists for an intermediate good. Since, in fact, the majority of intermediate should be. This has has to be established before one can bluster in outrage at the failure of the state to hold shareholders personally liable for such torts. As for
his brilliant, classic article The Myth of the Rule of Law : What would a free market in legal services be like? I am always tempted to give the honest and accurate it is usually interpreted as an appeal for blind faith in the free market, and the failure to provide a specific explanation as to how such a market would provide legal
dusting it off, embellishing and popularizing it as a label for the free market, private property, limited government philosophy and the moral and ethical that is in him. Such a person cannot, however, take refuge behind a mere label. My failure, no less than that of many others, to grasp this evasive point accounts, in
Free-market economist Professor William F. Shughart II attempts to defend the need for IP of time and treasure. Most research and development (R&D) investments end in failure. Granting a temporary monopoly to the rare breakthrough is necessary, creator’s rights are not protected, his survival is jeopardized. If another can market his creation, the creator is deprived of the money he would otherwise earn .”
the idea of assembling articles critical of IP, mostly from a libertarian or free market perspective. Maybe some day I’ll get around to getting permissions and Affect the Quality and Quantity of Literary Output? “, by Cole Review of Patent Failure by James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer The Promise of a Post-Copyright World
Ludwig von Mises showed that without a decentralized private-property system, free-market prices, which are essential in economic calculation, cannot be generated. As law-finding systems like the common law, on the other hand, are analogous to free markets in that a natural order, unplanned by government decrees, arises in both.
basis. The FDA-patent victims here tried to get another manufacturer into the market but the NIH said “no.” As Black told me, “The FDA is our last resort because fats properly leading to numerous symptoms, the most serious of which are renal failure and degenerative heart disease. Most patients did not live much beyond 50
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