Re: more re intellectual property

2001-08-23 Thread Eugene Coyle
Ian Murray wrote, in part: > = > It's the other way around; the intellectual and other types of > property rights in productive assets are a threat to the majority of > the world's peoples. > > Ian Good point. But it is both ways. Don't forget they are reacting to us. Gene

Re: Re: more re intellectual property

2001-08-23 Thread Ian Murray
[Very apropos on the WSJ piece and the future of IPR and labor relations] Robert L. Hale, "Coercion and Distribution in a Supposedly Non-Coercive State," 38 Political Science Quarterly (1923), 470-478. "And while the House of Peers withholds its legislative hand, And noble statesman do not itch

Re: more re intellectual property

2001-08-23 Thread Ian Murray
Boo boo alert: > If anything it's the other way around. The law determines the economy > more than the economy determines the law. === I meant to say the law determines the economy more than economic theory does and where economic theory contravenes legal doctrine so much the worse for econo