Mises Wire

I’ve recently bemoaned the damage done to RIM, the manufacturer of the Blackberry, by

Sez Senator Charles Schumer. The pharmaceutical company Merck is facing generic competition for its cholesterol-lowering drug Zocor.

Patent trolls are under increasing attack of late—patent owners who don’t actually de

Apparently the discovery of penicillin is often trotted out as a classic case showing the importance of having the innovation-incentives of a paten

New EH.Net book review by Bob Higgs:

As noted on the notorious Liberty and Power blog (well, notorious for having banned me once, a

Don Boudreaux, an inspired George Mason University Econ professor, takes issue in a recent blog with a radio reporter.

I wrote an Objectivist friend the other day, “No matter what your stance on IP, surely you must wince to read Rand write: “patents are