Mises Wire
The Creator-Endorsed Mark as an Alternative to Copyright
I’m often asked by people who are interested in the criticisms of intellectual property how authors, for example, would be compensated in a copyrig
Retail sales despair
The report this morning about June retail has everyone down in the mouth, but it actually can’t be a bad thing that consumers are pulling back.
Can Secession Succeed?
Following on the heels of the excellent discussions during Secession We
Globalization and the Intellectuals
Here’s a question, paraphrased from Charles Calomiris via Deirdre McCloskey’s The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce: wou
All Things Considered … Except Libertarianism
Today on NPR’s All Things Considered there was a discussion of extending unemployment benefits.
Let’s just shut down all progress using copyright and patent
Here is a weekend code writer who was hammered by a corporate corresponden
GLD Tops $50 Billion
SPDR Gold Trust has surpassed the monumental $50 billion mark in terms of assets (gold).
Misesian vs. Marxian vs. IP Views of Innovation
BK Marcus drew my attention to this passage from Mises’s Theory and History