tomgpalmer.com » Economic Insights http://tomgpalmer.com Personal website and weblog of the libertarian thinker Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:57:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Intellectual Property: Philosophical and Economic Background http://tomgpalmer.com/2012/01/19/intellectual-property-philosophical-and-economic-background/ http://tomgpalmer.com/2012/01/19/intellectual-property-philosophical-and-economic-background/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:04:58 +0000 Tom Palmer http://tomgpalmer.com/?p=6364

My articles on “Are Patents and Copyrights Morally Justified? The Philosophy of Property Rights and Ideal Objects” (Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Summer 1990) and “Intellectual Property: A Non-Posnerian Law and Economics Approach” (Hamline Law Review, Spring 1989). (My views on technology were only mildly prescient with regard to specifics, but right, I think, on the general matter.)

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This question was posed by PolicyMic.com:

“I’m an American underwater in debt and with a stagnant income. Which group should I support: the Tea Party or Occupy Wall Street?”

I took one side, Peter Rothberg of The Nation the other. You can see the discussion here.

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My talk at the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, North Carolina

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An excerpt from my talk to the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Full presentation is available through the preceding link.)

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Leonid Nikonov is a contributor to The Morality of Capitalism.

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“Can Capitalism Save Poor Countries?”

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More information on the book and the associated project here.

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The Liberty Fund has done us all a great service. The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat. Vol. 1: The Man and the Statesman: The Correspondence and Articles on Politics is now available and it’s instructive and delightful. You can buy the book very inexpensively here, or download the E-Book or PDF at zero price here. It was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal here.

Bastiat was a good economist, a wonderful teacher, and a brilliant champion of peace and freedom. I hope you find the time to introduce yourself to him. I am confident that you will not regret the experience.

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This is a really smart video. (And it complements rather nicely the messages in The Morality of Capitalism, forthcoming in late August.)

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Featuring Kim Chung Ho of the Korean Center for Free Enterprise:

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A somewhat oddly disjointed “debate” on the morality of profits and state entitlements…..The Morality of Entitlements

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Pass it on, friends!

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From the offices of the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom: Директор Cato University Том Палмер рассуждает о взаимоотношениях России и США,военном конфликте между Россией и Грузией и причинах международного финансового кризиса. (It’s dubbed in Russian.)

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The first short introduction of the speaker, Gurcharan Das from India, is in Arabic, but the rest is in English, with Arabic translation. Gurcharan Das is the former CEO of Procter and Gamble India, chairman of the libertarian Centre for Civil Society, and author of the outstanding books India Unbound and The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma. Dr. Nouh El Harmouzi (who introduces him and translates) is director and editor of Minbaralhurriyya.org and author of the just released book Le sous-développement dans le monde arabo-musulman: Quel est le rôle des institutions informelles?

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From my interview on Polish television (CNBC) on global capitalism and the danger of new forms of "global economic governance"

You can find the link (helpful if you know Polish [I do not; my remarks were dubbed over]) at: http://www.tvncnbc.pl/, search through the archives (see the bottom) for “Dylematy globalnej gospodarki”.

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I need to get back and post pics, etc. (I have more on my personal FB page…easier to upload, especially when others do it!)

Here’s an interview I recently had in Kyiv (note: it’s in Russian): Томас Палмер: «Развиваться Украине могут помочь идеи федерализма»

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