Mises Wire
Little sleep, more productivity
The Wall Street Journal’s Melinda Black has an interesting piece in today’s edition entitled “The Sleepless Elite.” One to three percent of the population require less than six hours of sleep to function well.
Alan Charles Kors on Socialism
This lecture is fantastic, really. Professor Kors draws heavily from Mises himself.
Google’s Defensive Patent Acquisition
I’ve discussed before the practice of defensive patenting and defensive patent publishing–companies acquire patents or publish their trade secrets
Jobs report less awful, media declares “recovery is for real.”
Back in September, Bob Murphy described the “recovery” like this:
The Origins of Libertarian IP Abolitionism
David Gordon has a great article up today on LewRockwell.com, Sam Konkin and Libertaria
Prior User Rights and Patent Reform
We IP abolitionists are often accused of not favoring or proposing incremental change–of only wanting all or nothing. Nonsense.