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As I think more about “intellectual property” in the form of patents and copyrights, it seems that the implications for social theory a

When an author signs a publication contract, insofar as it contains strict and traditional copyright notices, he is pretty much signing his life aw

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I don’t think I’ve pushed this before, but “Master Resource,” a new free market energy blog, is in full sw

John Maynard Keynes once wrote that "the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist."

The monetary central planners never stop thinking of new gimmics to manipulate the money supply, price inflation and interest rates.

I am hesitant to compliment Tucker’s A Book that Changes Everything, given that he generously over-praise

From Individualism and Economic Order (ironically under copyright),

The discussions over IP awakened a memory of an old NPR segment.

Often we opponents of socialistic, legislatively-created, utilitarian-based, property-redistributing, artificial, arbitrary, inconsistent, irrational, innovation-hampering, monopolistic, anti-competitive, and wealth-destroying intellectual property laws are accused of hypocrisy when we “copyright” our articles and books.