Adapted from the notes for “Fritz Machlup, The Patent Controversy in the Nineteenth Century (1850–73),” chap. 7 of Kinsella, ed., The Anti-IP Reader: Free Market Critiques of Intellectual Property (Papinian Press, 2023). [continue reading…]
I’ve discussed in previous writing the harmful effects of patents, for example on the pharmaceutical industry. (See below.)
I just came across a couple of fairly recent pieces on this topic at Mises.org:
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