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The authors argue that intellectual property is a misnomer; that the term [[monopoly]] is more accurate and the text examines the institution the same way all monopolies are examined in economic literature. | The authors argue that intellectual property is a misnomer; that the term [[monopoly]] is more accurate and the text examines the institution the same way all monopolies are examined in economic literature. | ||
==Contents== | |||
===Credits=== | |||
===Chapter 1: Introduction=== | |||
An overview of the central theme: intellectual property is in fact intellectual monopoly and hinders rather than helps innovation and creation. | |||
===Chapter 2: Creation Under Competition=== | |||
Would the world be devoid of great or lesser works of art without copyright? | |||
===Chapter 3: Innovation Under Competition=== | |||
What would happen to innovation without patents? | |||
===Chapter 4: The Evil of Intellectual Monopoly=== | |||
Why are patents so bad anyway? | |||
===Chapter 5: The Devil in Disney=== | |||
What is the big deal with copyright? | |||
===Chapter 6: How Competition Works=== | |||
How would artists and innovators get paid without copyrights and patents? | |||
===Chapter 7: Defenses of Intellectual Monopoly=== | |||
What is the conventional wisdom and why it is wrong. | |||
===Chapter 8: Does Intellectual Monopoly Increase Innovation?=== | |||
This is the heart of the matter: there is no evidence that intellectual monopoly serves the purpose that both the U.S. Constitution and economic logic dictates. There is no evidence it "works" to increase creation and innovation. | |||
===Chapter 9: The Pharmaceutical Industry=== | |||
But what about life-saving drugs? | |||
===Chapter 10: The Bad, the Good, and the Ugly=== | |||
A look at various policy options. | |||
===References=== | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
Revision as of 22:18, 12 September 2011
| Against Intellectual Monopoly | |
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| Author(s) | Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine |
| Country | United States |
| Subject(s) | Economics |
| Genre(s) | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Publication date |
2005 (online, 1st edition) 2008 (print) |
| Media type | Print, Digital |
| Pages | 298 p. |
| ISBN | 9780521879286 |
| OCLC Number | 187300457 |
Against Intellectual Monopoly is a book written by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine. The text details the utilitarian case against intellectual property, arguing that neither copyright nor patent are part of the free market order, but rather they are the product of positive law, a modern invention of the state, and one that is the enemy of technological progress.
The authors argue that intellectual property is a misnomer; that the term monopoly is more accurate and the text examines the institution the same way all monopolies are examined in economic literature.
Contents
Credits
Chapter 1: Introduction
An overview of the central theme: intellectual property is in fact intellectual monopoly and hinders rather than helps innovation and creation.
Chapter 2: Creation Under Competition
Would the world be devoid of great or lesser works of art without copyright?
Chapter 3: Innovation Under Competition
What would happen to innovation without patents?
Chapter 4: The Evil of Intellectual Monopoly
Why are patents so bad anyway?
Chapter 5: The Devil in Disney
What is the big deal with copyright?
Chapter 6: How Competition Works
How would artists and innovators get paid without copyrights and patents?
Chapter 7: Defenses of Intellectual Monopoly
What is the conventional wisdom and why it is wrong.
Chapter 8: Does Intellectual Monopoly Increase Innovation?
This is the heart of the matter: there is no evidence that intellectual monopoly serves the purpose that both the U.S. Constitution and economic logic dictates. There is no evidence it "works" to increase creation and innovation.
Chapter 9: The Pharmaceutical Industry
But what about life-saving drugs?
Chapter 10: The Bad, the Good, and the Ugly
A look at various policy options.
References
See also
Links
- Official page
- Final online version (2008) (PDF)(Scribd)
- Excerpt from Chapter 1 "James Watt: Monopolist"
- Articles, essays and reviews
- "Ideas, Free and Unfree: A Book Commentary" by Jeffrey A. Tucker, March 2011 (collection of live blog entries from 2009)
- Mises Review: "Against Intellectual Monopoly" by David Gordon, 2009 (republished as Mises Daily here)
- RAE Review: "A critical review of against intellectual monopoly" by John Kennedy, October 2010
- "Intellectual Monopoly is an Unnecessary Evil" by Art Carden, May 2009
- "If You Believe in IP, How Do You Teach Others?" by Jeffrey A. Tucker, November 2009
- "The patent system: End it, don’t mend it" by David K. Levine, Michele Boldrin, December 2009
- Other media
- "Against Intellectual Monopoly" interview with Michele Boldrin, March 2009 (YouTube)
- Cato book forum: "Against Intellectual Monopoly" lecture by Michele Boldrin, November 2008 (YouTube)