Protectionism

The evil SOPA is dead …. for now…. [Update: or not...]

by Stephan Kinsella December 16, 2011

Update, from Masnick’s post below: “Update…. Or not. Despite the fact that Congress was supposed to be out of session until the end of January, the Judiciary Committee has just announced plans to come back to continue the markup this coming Wednesday. This is rather unusual and totally unnecessary. But it shows just how desperate [...]

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LSU Football, Trademark, and “Honey Badger”

by Stephan Kinsella December 8, 2011

I received three very useful and taxpayer-subsidized degrees from LSU. But I’ve never given them a dime, and never will (I do donate to my private high school, Baton Rouge’s Catholic High School). Up till now, there were two reasons for this. First, it’s a state university. I think they should be abolished. Second, like [...]

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Gabb on Milne’s Time to Say No: Alternatives to EU Membership

by Stephan Kinsella November 22, 2011

English libertarian Sean Gabb, Director of the Libertarian Alliance, has just published an excellent book review of Ian Milne’s Time to Say No: Alternatives to EU Membership. It’s appended below. This little review is chock full of great insights. He explains that the EU, while it does not really infringe UK sovereignty–”this country is governed [...]

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The Corrosive Effects of IP

by Robert Wicks May 24, 2011

Libertarian thought has largely moved against IP in recent years, largely due to the groundbreaking work of Stephan Kinsella. Kinsella’s work is a powerful defense of genuine property rights and a thorough repudiation of government-granted monopolies. One of the overlooked implications of the rights violations inherent in intellectual property laws is the terrible effect of copyright laws [...]

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IP As Intellectual Laziness, Skewed Business Models

by Manuel Lora May 23, 2011

We have heard it said that IP causes people to “rest on their laurels.” What this means is that intellectual property causes entrepreneurial laziness in at least two ways. The first, and the one that is often mentioned in IP abolitionist circles is that there is less pressure for the original innovator to continue to [...]

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Don’t Bet on China: Redux

by Stephan Kinsella November 4, 2010

A Chinese libertarian, Nicolas Dong, who recently did a Mandarin translation of one of my IP articles, recently told me this in an email regarding my earlier post, Don’t Bet on China: I agree most part of your point of view about China. I believe that after the bust of the current housing bubble and [...]

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Erecting Entry-preneurial Barriers

by Isaac Bergman July 31, 2010

The caption accompanying this NY Times article picture of a street vendor selling bottled-water reads “Many sidewalk peddlers are doing record business, though the city considers it against the law to sell water without a license.” I think Brad Spangler’s timely Facebook status update expresses how one should react to this: Note carefully that states [...]

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