Jeff Tucker’s Ideas, Free and Unfree: A Book Commentary is a fantastic compilation of his commentary on Boldrin and Levine’s Against Intellectual Monopoly. (It’s also in his book It’s a Jetsons World: Private Miracles & Public Crime (2011).)
[Against Intellectual Monopoly • By Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine • Cambridge University Press, 2010 • 306 pages]
“This book helped me see the world more clearly and understand so much that had previously remained cloudy.”
- Introduction
- A Book That Changes Everything
- Authors: Beware of Copyright
- What is Your Attitude Toward IP?
- The Universals of IP Theorizing
- Does Monopoly Create Wealth?
- Does Innovation Require Property in Ideas?
- Seen and Unseen Cost of Patents
- The Book and Music Killers
- Back to Basics on Property and Competition
- Fallacy Run Amok
- The Hoax of Invention History
- Do Patents Save Our Lives?
- The Mercantilism of Our Time
Update: Kinsella, Authors: Don’t Make the Buddy Holly Mistake and Jeffrey A. Tucker, Authors: Beware of Copyright (also in his Bourbon for Breakfast, along with related chapters: “”If You Believe in IP, How Do You Teach Others?”, “Is Intellectual Property the Key to Success?”, “Books, Online and Off,” and “Mises.org in the Context of Publishing History.”
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