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
Can Secession Succeed?
Following on the heels of the excellent discussions during Secession We
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.
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.
GLD Tops $50 Billion
SPDR Gold Trust has surpassed the monumental $50 billion mark in terms of assets (gold).
Let’s just shut down all progress using copyright and patent
Here is a weekend code writer who was hammered by a corporate corresponden
Misesian vs. Marxian vs. IP Views of Innovation
BK Marcus drew my attention to this passage from Mises’s Theory and History