Kinsella, Intellectual Property and Libertarianism 2009
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Stephan Kinsella
Stephan Kinsella is a registered patent attorney, a libertarian theorist and lecturer, Director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom (C4SIF), Editor of Libertarian Papers, blogger at The Libertarian Standard. www.StephanKinsella.com, www.c4sif.org, www.libertarianpapers.org
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Kinsella, Intellectual Property and Libertarianism 2009
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Patent Rights: A Spark or Hindrance for the Economy? - Podcast » Publications » The Federalist Society
Innovation and entrepreneurship are integral to America’s economic strength, and the U.S. patent system has been critical to nurturing the innovation economy. With its foundation in Article One, Section 8 of the Constitution, the U.S. patent system has been the strongest in the world. In recent years, some critics, including Judge Richard Posner, have argued that the patent system has led to excessive patenting, too much litigation, and unwarranted costs for consumers. Patent defenders have responded that with every spike in innovation comes a corresponding increase in the number of patent suits, and efforts to weaken patent rights will inevitably lead to less innovation. With the passage of the America Invents Act — the broadest overhaul of the patent system in 50 years America — many people believed that the dispute over patent rights would recede. However, with a string of high profile patent infringement suits in the smartphone industry – and a new effort to roll back patent rights at the International Trade Commission certain patents held by so-called “non-practicing entities” (NPEs) – the debate over intellectual property has grown more intense. Would reduced patent rights diminish U.S. competitiveness and depress innovation? In a diversified economy, should NPEs have fewer patent rights than those that manufacture their inventions? Will innovation continue apace even if patent protections are scaled back?
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Robert LeFevre on Manners and Morality | Robert LeFevre | Libertarianism.org
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Gabb on libertarianism—left or right?
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Gabb: Libertarianism: Left or right?
On Thursday, the 9th August 2012, Sean Gabb spoke in Bratislava to the Institute of Economic and Social Studies (INESS) on the subject of "Libertarianism: Left or Right?"
He made the following points:
That libertarianism is a child of the Enlightenment, and is a champion of rationalist and humanity. As such, it was inevitably opposed to large elements of the European Old Order. This can be seen in the writings of John Locke, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Frederic Bastiat, and in the speeches and writings of Cobden and Bright.
That, during the 1880s, libertarians in England became increasingly more alarmed by the progress of state socialism in its various forms that they entered into an alliance with the landed aristocracy, which was itself worried about the tendencies of the age. The most obvious sign of this alliance was the Liberty and Property Defence League.
That the decline of the landed interest after 1914, and the global challenge of Soviet socialism required libertarians to go into a new alliance with corporate big business.
That this need has evaporated since 1989, and libertarians are free to choose their friends in ways that were not possible before.
That, while the English landed aristocracy was perhaps the most liberal ruling class in history, and that compromise with it was natural and even desirable for libertarians, corporate big business is little more than the commercial arm of an utterly malign ruling class that legitimises itself by cultural leftism and maintains its global hegemony via the military-industrial complex.
That libertarians are perhaps mistaken when they worship actually existing capitalism as if it were a variety of a genuinely free market, and when they implicitly regard the poor as enemies and dismiss the complaints of the poor as hostility to free markets.
That libertarians should focus more on showing how the established order of things hurts the poor - by using the tax and regulatory structures to raise the minimum scale of output and stop the poor from starting micro-businesses that would free them from the oppresion of bad employers and the welfare authorities.
Much else is covered, including intellectual property and whether Britain and Slovakia should leave the European Union.
For technical reasons, this is an audio file only.
— Sean Gabb Director, The Libertarian Alliance (Carbon Positive since 1979)
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Center for the StKinsella Austrian AV Club Interview—Mises Institute Canadaudy of Innovative Freedom â Pro-commerce ? Pro-competition ? Anti-monopoly
I was interviewed yesterday by Redmond Weissenberger, Director of the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada. We had a long-ranging discussion of intellectual property and libertarian theory, including a discussion about exactly how Ayn Rand and other libertarians got off track on this issue, in part because of flaws regarding “labor” and “creationism” in Locke’s original homesteading argument; inconsistencies between Rand’s support for IP and her recognition that production means rearranging existing property; and also the different roles of scarce means and knowledge in the praxeological structure of human action. (For more on these issues, see my blog posts Locke on IP; Mises, Rothbard, and Rand on Creation, Production, and ‘Rearranging’, Hume on Intellectual Property and the Problematic “Labor” Metaphor, Rand on IP, Owning “Values”, and ‘Rearrangement Rights’, and The Patent Defense League and Defensive Patent Pooling, and my article “Intellectual Freedom and Learning Versus Patent and Copyright.”)
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mises houston rediscovered
In End the Fed, Ron Paul writes: Early on, I had heard Ludwig von Mises lecture at the University of Houston.
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