I’m not cross-posting but had not been until recently. Here is a list of my older Mises.org blog posts.
Circular Reasoning in the Law
Ever since I was in law school I’ve been irritated at various circular arguments used to justify various laws, policies, or legal rulings. A good example is the notion of “detrimental reliance,” which is sometimes used to justify enforcing a contract. The question arises: why should a promise be enforceable? The answer? Because the promisee reasonably relied on it to his detriment, so that if the promise is not enforced, then the promisee would suffer damage. Of course the obvious response is that the “reliance” is reasonable only if promises are legally binding in the first place–hence the circularity. (For more on this, see La. Civ. Code Art. 1967; my Punishment and Proportionality: The Estoppel Approach, n. 14; Randy E. Barnett, A Consent Theory of Contract, pp. 274-76; and George Fletcher, Paradoxes in Legal Thought, p. 1269, and n. 30. For an example of a libertarian who makes this mistake, see my review (p. 140) of Patrick Burke’s, No Harm: Ethical Principles for a Free Market.) The right approach is the libertarian Evers-Rothbardian “title transfer” theory of contracts, rather than the “enforceable promises view” (see my A Theory of Contracts: Binding Promises, Title Transfer, and Inalienability).
In law school and grad school I used to make notes in the margins of cases and books when I encountered these, but unfortunately have lost them. I had a dozen or two. I remember there were some in International Business Transactions. Another had to do with the patent law concept of “file wrapper estopppel” (don’t ask). I remember some in the UCC courses, some in bankruptcy, lots in torts. And many in constitutional law–e.g., regarding the 4th amendment right against search and seizure, if I recall, the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence, in order to determine whether someone’s “privacy” is breached, asks whether someone had a “legitimate expectation” of privacy. Circular! In modern-day FISA America, citizens do not really have such an expectation, because they know the nature of their government. Why should the way things are be some sort of indicia for the way the Constitution commands they should be? (If any law students or lawyers or others remember or come across other examples, please post them in the comments.)
It’s unrealistic to expect mainstream legal statist-positivists to adopt libertarian reasoning, but I would prefer if they would simply honestly say it’s just an arbitrary decree or decision, rather than pretend they have a real justification for the policy or decision.
EconTalk Podcast on IP with Michele Boldrin
May 21, 2009 2:08 PM | Comments (3)
Imagining the Fate of Copyright in a Future World
May 21, 2009 7:55 AM | Comments (25)
An Open Letter to Skeptics: Consider Also The State
May 19, 2009 4:43 PM | Comments (74)
Kevin Carson’s Intellectual Property — A Libertarian Critique
May 13, 2009 8:58 PM | Comments (36)
The Other Dr. No: HIV Researcher Fighting the IP Pirates
May 8, 2009 10:00 PM | Comments (1)
The Libertarian View on Fine Print, Shinkwrap, Clickwrap
May 8, 2009 4:27 PM | Comments (14)
The O.P. Alford III Prize in Libertarian Scholarship
April 30, 2009 11:25 PM | Comments (1)
My EETimes Letter on Protecting the Patent System
April 29, 2009 12:11 PM | Comments (31)
“‘I Paid for this Microphone!’ The Importance of Shareholder Theory in (Teaching) Business Ethics,” by David Levy & Mark Mitschow (Libertarian Papers)
April 29, 2009 10:03 AM | Comments (4)
New Articles in Libertarian Papers: Free Will, “Triune” Protection, Narveson on Kukathas, and Causation & Responsibility
April 28, 2009 2:39 PM | Comments (0)
What’s Next–Trademarking Language? Don’t be *Ridiculous*!
April 28, 2009 12:57 AM | Comments (13)
Randy Barnett’s “Federalism Amendment”–A Counterproposal
April 26, 2009 11:15 AM | Comments (18)
The Walmart Question, or, the Unsupported Assertions of Left-Libertarianism
April 26, 2009 9:16 AM | Comments (29)
The Division of Labor as the Source of Grundnorms and Rights
April 24, 2009 12:48 AM | Comments (33)
Randy Barnett’s Proposed “Federalism Amendment”
April 23, 2009 3:27 PM | Comments (9)
“Secret intellectual property treaty could profoundly change life on the Internet”
April 22, 2009 1:28 PM | Comments (10)
Why Copyright Will Delay Online Movie Rentals for Another Twenty Years
April 21, 2009 10:16 AM | Comments (5)
Zero Percent Inflation is Still a Tax and Wealth-Destroying
April 19, 2009 4:50 PM | Comments (36)
Stalking as a Form of Aggression
April 14, 2009 9:46 PM | Comments (24)
Top 100 Libertarian Blogs and Websites
April 13, 2009 11:01 PM | Comments (13)
Hoppe in Finnish
April 12, 2009 9:13 PM | Comments (6)
Calzada in The Economist
April 7, 2009 7:04 AM | Comments (6)
Update: The Prophetic Dr. Hoppe on the Rise of the Phoenix
March 23, 2009 10:16 PM | Comments (11)
Mutualism, Localism, Free Trade, Multi-National Enterprises
March 22, 2009 9:25 AM | Comments (63)
Optional “Taxes”
March 15, 2009 9:44 AM | Comments (133)
Revisiting Argumentation Ethics
March 13, 2009 11:45 PM | Comments (48)
Down with the Lockean Proviso
March 13, 2009 2:35 PM | Comments (7)
“A Reply to the Current Critiques Formulated Against Hoppe’s Argumentation Ethics” by Marian Eabrasu (Libertarian Papers)
March 12, 2009 10:13 PM | Comments (19)
“Argumentation Ethics and The Philosophy of Freedom” by Frank van Dun (Libertarian Papers)
March 12, 2009 10:03 PM | Comments (0)
Libertarian Papers Print Archive: Vol. 1 (2009), Part 1: Articles 1-17, now available
March 12, 2009 3:48 PM | Comments (1)
Study: Free Markets Superior to Patent Monopolies
March 5, 2009 4:40 PM | Comments (11)
IP and Google Books on the iPhone
March 5, 2009 11:24 AM | Comments (5)
Monsanto v. Google on Patent Reform
March 5, 2009 11:08 AM | Comments (11)
Ludwig von Mises: Buck Hills Lectures
March 4, 2009 7:28 AM | Comments (0)
Driving Innovation
March 3, 2009 11:39 AM | Comments (15)
Is Foreclosure Resistance Libertarian?
March 2, 2009 5:04 PM | Comments (98)
“Grounding Political Debate,” by Benjamin Marks (Libertarian Papers)
March 2, 2009 12:23 PM | Comments (1)
Mises on Intellectual Property
February 24, 2009 3:49 PM | Comments (38)
Copyrighting Dance Steps–The Death of Choreography
February 24, 2009 3:13 PM | Comments (13)
Is Bill Clinton a Non-Keynesian?
February 24, 2009 12:32 PM | Comments (10)
There are No Good Arguments for Intellectual Property
February 24, 2009 11:57 AM | Comments (147)
What’s Wrong with Theft?
February 22, 2009 11:54 PM | Comments (83)
Volunteer Narrators Sought for Libertarian Papers Podcasts
February 20, 2009 3:42 PM | Comments (14)
“Libertarian Punishment Theory: Working for, and Donating to, the State,” by Walter Block (Libertarian Papers)
February 19, 2009 10:23 PM | Comments (0)
Newton and IP
February 15, 2009 10:41 AM | Comments (18)
Two Bruno Leoni Articles (Libertarian Papers)
February 12, 2009 11:55 PM | Comments (0)
Trademark versus Copyright and Patent, or: Is All IP Evil?
February 12, 2009 12:38 AM | Comments (129)
New Articles on Libertarian Papers: Guillory & Tinsley; Reviews of Jasay & Reisman; News about Indexing/Abstracts
February 10, 2009 6:45 PM | Comments (4)
“Two Constructions of Libertarianism” by Chandran Kukathas (Libertarian Papers)
February 7, 2009 10:47 AM | Comments (5)
“Stealth Libertarianism” to Blame for Patent Law Flaws?
February 5, 2009 12:10 AM | Comments (4)
Fraud, Restitution, and Retaliation: The Libertarian Approach
February 3, 2009 11:09 AM | Comments (24)
Reason Papers: Tear Down That Wall!
February 2, 2009 10:30 PM | Comments (2)
New Leoni Book: Law, Liberty, and the Competitive Market
February 2, 2009 2:50 PM | Comments (8)
Globalization and Peace: A Hayekian Perspective, by Adrián Osvaldo Ravier (Libertarian Papers)
February 2, 2009 11:42 AM | Comments (0)
Levine on Abolishing Copyright: What We Would Lose, What We Would Gain
February 1, 2009 11:38 PM | Comments (50)
iEvil
February 1, 2009 11:34 PM | Comments (2)
FreeTalkLive on Tucker, IP, and Boldrin & Levine
January 28, 2009 10:43 PM | Comments (11)
“Austrian Economics–The Ultimate Achievement of an Intellectual Journey,” by Pascal Salin (Libertarian Papers)
January 27, 2009 7:03 AM | Comments (2)
Dissecting Boldrin and Levine: An Alternate View of Intellectual Property
January 26, 2009 12:53 PM | Comments (49)
“Dead End Street Blues,” by Frank van Dun (Libertarian Papers)
January 25, 2009 6:31 PM | Comments (1)
Libertarian Papers Included in Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory
January 23, 2009 12:59 PM | Comments (2)
Copyright Debate Goes Mainstream: Lessig/Colbert “Remix” Interview
January 22, 2009 10:21 PM | Comments (20)
Latest Non-Issue of Libertarian Papers
January 22, 2009 2:11 PM | Comments (3)
Libertarian Papers
January 22, 2009 8:15 AM | Comments (6)
When newspapers are gone, what will you miss?
January 19, 2009 12:58 PM | Comments (20)
Hayek, IP, and Knowledge
January 16, 2009 5:00 PM | Comments (60)
Copyright is very sticky!
January 14, 2009 7:26 PM | Comments (24)
Government Accountants Give Patent Office Award!
January 11, 2009 10:13 AM | Comments (13)
Why People Don’t Believe In Paying For Music. Hint: Its All About Deflation.
January 7, 2009 11:12 PM | Comments (45)
FT on Misesian Business Cycle Theory
January 4, 2009 9:46 PM | Comments (22)
On The Right of “Labor” to Own Improved Products
December 22, 2008 11:02 AM | Comments (41)
The Limits of Utilitarian Reasoning–The Case of Patents
December 19, 2008 8:34 PM | Comments (17)
Profiles Mississippi
December 19, 2008 6:58 PM | Comments (3)
Panarchy
December 17, 2008 10:11 PM | Comments (23)
Access to Energy
December 16, 2008 2:14 PM | Comments (12)
Corporations and Limited Liability for Torts
December 10, 2008 11:13 PM | Comments (72)
Left-Libertarians on Corporations “Expropriating the Efforts of Stakeholders”
December 8, 2008 2:43 PM | Comments (123)
Patent Attorneys Asserting Their Own Patents
December 3, 2008 1:33 AM | Comments (0)
$30 Billion Taxfunded Innovation Contracts: The “Progressive-Libertarian” Solution
November 23, 2008 10:36 AM | Comments (9)
Objectivists on the PRO-IP Act
November 21, 2008 5:10 PM | Comments (107)
The Over-reliance on State Classifications: “Employee” and “Shareholder”
November 20, 2008 9:43 AM | Comments (7)
Cato: Fed Inflation “Needed” to Counter “Irrational Exuberance”
November 17, 2008 10:34 AM | Comments (13)
Obama Transition Team Member on “Optimizing” the Patent System
November 15, 2008 8:16 AM | Comments (9)
Employee “Free Choice” Act
November 14, 2008 11:27 AM | Comments (17)
The Hypocrisy of State Collusion
November 13, 2008 10:02 AM | Comments (2)
Hoppe’s Libertarian Alliance Conference 2008 Video — The Idea of a Private Law Society
November 13, 2008 9:33 AM | Comments (1)
Method Patents Must be “Useful, Concrete, Tangible”–Oh, I don’t know!
November 12, 2008 12:33 PM | Comments (2)
Update on Patent Troll Tracker
November 8, 2008 12:14 AM | Comments (0)
Hoppe’s Oxford Speech: The Exploitation of the Strong by the Weak
November 3, 2008 4:36 PM | Comments (5)
Bessen & Meurer: Patents Do Not Increase Innovation
November 3, 2008 3:41 PM | Comments (12)
The Tao of IP
October 31, 2008 12:27 PM | Comments (4)
Anthony de Jasay on the Presumption of Liberty
October 29, 2008 11:19 PM | Comments (2)
Praxeology and Ethics: Three Philosophers Considered–Rothbard, Hoppe, Searle
October 29, 2008 2:13 PM | Comments (1)
Is “Loser Pays” Libertarian?
October 21, 2008 2:57 PM | Comments (18)
The Prophetic Dr. Hoppe on the Rise of the Phoenix
October 7, 2008 9:43 AM | Comments (18)
Shaping “Nuanced” Patent Injunctions
October 2, 2008 9:46 AM | Comments (0)
Ayn Rand Institute on The Bailout and The Great Depression
September 30, 2008 4:09 PM | Comments (47)
Re My Objections to IP: Nevermind
September 29, 2008 2:25 PM | Comments (6)
Hatch’s “International IP Piracy Priority Watch List”
September 26, 2008 12:14 PM | Comments (1)
Federal Circuit Affirms that Lucent’s $1.5B Patent Victory is Gone
September 26, 2008 12:00 PM | Comments (0)
The Death of Patents
September 25, 2008 10:46 PM | Comments (1)
Flash of Genius
September 25, 2008 12:41 AM | Comments (7)
Michael Lewis: America Must Rescue the Bonuses at Goldman Sachs
September 24, 2008 3:55 PM | Comments (4)
Cato: Bridge Loan for AIG
September 19, 2008 9:43 AM | Comments (3)
Cato on Pro-McCain George Will Column
September 18, 2008 10:46 AM | Comments (12)
Left Anarchists and Progressive Taxation
September 18, 2008 10:05 AM | Comments (26)
Cory Doctorow on Giving Away Free E-Books and the Morality of “Copying”
September 16, 2008 11:40 PM | Comments (14)
Austrian Business Cycle Theory Hip!
September 8, 2008 10:48 AM | Comments (7)
IP Converts — Authors and Google
September 4, 2008 7:50 AM | Comments (3)
Copyright and Cambridge U. Press
September 2, 2008 9:51 PM | Comments (49)
It’s the Pattern Privilege, Stupid
August 28, 2008 1:04 AM | Comments (0)
Troll Tracker Lands Job Fighting Patent Trolls!
August 20, 2008 7:14 AM | Comments (1)
“Patent Hawk” Sues Microsoft, Former Client, for Patent Infringement
August 20, 2008 12:20 AM | Comments (4)
Incorporation and the Fourteenth Amendment: The 140 Year Old “Riddle”
August 18, 2008 6:39 AM | Comments (8)
IP and Anarchy
August 18, 2008 1:42 AM | Comments (10)
Leopold Kohr: Against Bigness
August 12, 2008 8:35 PM | Comments (10)
Libertarian Favors $80 Billion Annual Tax-Funded “Medical Innovation Prize Fund”
August 12, 2008 8:23 PM | Comments (34)
Cato on “Monetary Arrangements in the 21st Century”
August 11, 2008 7:39 AM | Comments (4)
Inventors are Like Unto …. GODS…..
August 7, 2008 12:34 AM | Comments (79)
An Open Letter to Leftist Opponents of Intellectual Property: On IP and the Support of the State
August 4, 2008 8:35 PM | Comments (48)
Digitizing Hansard–House of Commons, 1803-2005
August 4, 2008 7:13 AM | Comments (0)
Copyright Expert Finds Copyright Law Too Depressing to Blog About
August 3, 2008 11:09 PM | Comments (8)
A Libertarian Mount Rushmore
August 3, 2008 10:09 PM | Comments (28)
Regret: The Glory of State Law
July 31, 2008 6:47 AM | Comments (1)
Yeager on Bernanke and the Fed
July 28, 2008 6:47 AM | Comments (3)
IP Debate on Free Talk Live
July 26, 2008 12:04 AM | Comments (27)
Trademarks Ain’t so hot, either…
July 24, 2008 10:40 PM | Comments (39)
PTO: Protecting Innovation–And Patent Lawyers’ Jobs!
July 24, 2008 9:31 PM | Comments (0)
Stigler the Irrational — Anecdote by Van Dun
July 21, 2008 11:02 PM | Comments (0)
Van Dun on Lawyers and the Law
July 19, 2008 11:17 PM | Comments (6)
If Even Jefferson Was Bad…
July 14, 2008 2:36 PM | Comments (10)
Murray Rothbard: An Introduction to His Thought
July 10, 2008 9:58 AM | Comments (3)
Walter Block: Professing the Truth
June 30, 2008 8:47 PM | Comments (3)
When Antitrust and Patents Collide (Rambus v. FTC)
June 15, 2008 10:25 AM | Comments (23)
Internet Archive vs. the FBI (and free books!)
June 7, 2008 8:20 AM | Comments (5)
Copyright and the Intellectuals
May 16, 2008 2:34 PM | Comments (23)
Ideas Are Easy… Execution Is Difficult
May 16, 2008 2:14 PM | Comments (6)
An Anti-Intellectual Intellectual–Hoppe Interview in Indonesian
May 4, 2008 9:06 AM | Comments (3)
Blue Jeans Slays Monster
April 16, 2008 7:36 AM | Comments (8)
The Institute for Justice on the Wonderful Congress of 1866
April 10, 2008 3:49 PM | Comments (8)
Libertarian Creationism
April 4, 2008 1:32 PM | Comments (4)
Rothbard-Reisman “Roy Cohn” Speech
April 1, 2008 11:16 AM | Comments (5)
Quotes on the Logic of Liberty
March 30, 2008 12:30 PM | Comments (3)
Rethinking IP Completely
March 20, 2008 11:02 AM | Comments (7)
The Money Factory
March 14, 2008 11:20 AM | Comments (7)
Patents and Innovation
March 7, 2008 1:17 PM | Comments (10)
Renaming Intellectual Property
March 6, 2008 9:36 PM | Comments (96)
Yet Another Author Discovers Giving Away Ebooks Increases Sales
March 1, 2008 2:09 AM | Comments (16)
Open Access To Infinite Content (Or “In Praise Of Law Reviews”)
February 26, 2008 10:19 PM | Comments (0)
Patent Failure — new book by Bessen & Muerer
February 25, 2008 2:33 PM | Comments (12)
Troll Tracker’s Identity Revealed 🙁
February 24, 2008 12:14 PM | Comments (2)
Blackboard Patent Case
February 18, 2008 1:06 AM | Comments (12)
Don’t think that! (Really, don’t)
February 18, 2008 12:54 AM | Comments (0)
Patent Hypocrisy
February 15, 2008 10:25 AM | Comments (13)
Don’t Save Your (Patented) Seed
February 14, 2008 9:58 AM | Comments (17)
Hoppe’s TSC in Portugese
February 7, 2008 10:14 PM | Comments (0)
Patent Exhaustion
February 1, 2008 1:35 PM | Comments (4)
Are Copyrights and Patents Property Rights?
January 31, 2008 9:53 AM | Comments (89)
The RIAA and “educating” college students
January 14, 2008 11:21 PM | Comments (12)
Oliva on Objectivists and “Second-hand Property Rights”
January 5, 2008 6:09 PM | Comments (52)
Objectivist Law Prof Mossoff on Copyright; or, the Misuse of Labor, Value, and Creation Metaphors
January 3, 2008 7:08 PM | Comments (16)
Copyright Kills Amazing Music Project
January 2, 2008 10:48 PM | Comments (20)
Block on Paper Money on Israel National Radio
January 1, 2008 8:47 PM | Comments (20)
Apple Invents To-Go Ordering!
December 28, 2007 11:38 PM | Comments (17)
Live by the Sword…
December 18, 2007 11:10 PM | Comments (76)
Another Reason to Reform Patent Law: Touch Off A Recession!
December 14, 2007 3:08 PM | Comments (11)
Cato’s Center for Promotion of “Human Rights”
December 13, 2007 11:28 AM | Comments (50)
“Whining” Patent Victims
December 10, 2007 5:47 PM | Comments (15)
News Flash! “Inventors” Oppose Patent Reform!
December 10, 2007 1:56 PM | Comments (6)
China, India like US Patent Reform
December 10, 2007 10:18 AM | Comments (6)
High School Senior’s Questions about IP
December 7, 2007 9:51 AM | Comments (55)
Troll Tracker [Why People Hate Lawyers]
December 3, 2007 3:10 PM | Comments (10)
Chiquita Banana’s Hard Choices
November 28, 2007 11:05 AM | Comments (5)
Reason Papers 27 online; 29 out
November 27, 2007 11:45 AM | Comments (1)
PRIVATISSIMUM in Turkey
November 16, 2007 10:37 AM | Comments (3)
Ultimate Physics–sans patents!
November 15, 2007 10:31 PM | Comments (40)
Trademark and Fraud
November 7, 2007 11:53 AM | Comments (19)
Yet more Hoppe in Spanish
October 22, 2007 12:54 PM | Comments (0)
Re: Hermeneutics Redux
October 9, 2007 10:54 AM | Comments (4)
Intellectual Property as a tool for political repression
October 7, 2007 9:32 AM | Comments (24)
Hungary for Hoppe
October 3, 2007 10:00 AM | Comments (3)
Ayn Rand and Garet Garrett
October 2, 2007 11:56 AM | Comments (27)
Pilon on Patents
September 28, 2007 12:58 PM | Comments (7)
Patent Damages
September 27, 2007 12:45 AM | Comments (2)
What are the Costs of the Patent System?
September 27, 2007 12:25 AM | Comments (28)
Intellectual Property: Why Jefferson Was Wrong
September 21, 2007 3:58 PM | Comments (125)
The Piracy Paradox
September 20, 2007 4:44 PM | Comments (39)
Another Patent Tax
September 20, 2007 12:35 PM | Comments (9)
The Blockean Proviso
September 11, 2007 5:22 PM | Comments (62)
Open Source Patents
September 11, 2007 1:40 PM | Comments (36)
How Can Bigamy Be Illegal?
September 6, 2007 4:05 PM | Comments (14)
Knock it Off
September 6, 2007 3:23 PM | Comments (0)
Patent-Seeking as a Defensive Move — Then, and Now
September 6, 2007 1:15 PM | Comments (4)
Let’s Bring Back the Good Old Days of English Patents
August 31, 2007 10:11 AM | Comments (61)
Objectivism and the Corruption of Rationality
August 26, 2007 7:38 PM | Comments (24)
Ignorance of patents is no excuse!
August 24, 2007 4:52 PM | Comments (7)
My Hero: Mark Mendel
August 23, 2007 2:10 PM | Comments (7)
Thomas Friedman on Addicted to Oil
August 21, 2007 10:58 PM | Comments (34)
Classic Rothbard Letter on Buddhism, Mysticism, etc.
August 18, 2007 3:00 PM | Comments (16)
“Fair Use” and Copyright
August 17, 2007 12:52 PM | Comments (13)
Thoughts on the Latecomer and Homesteading Ideas; or, why the very idea of “ownership” implies that only libertarian principles are justifiable
August 15, 2007 12:53 PM | Comments (116)
Cato’s Pilon on the Ninth Amendment and Right to Lifesaving Drugs
August 10, 2007 2:41 PM | Comments (3)
Trademarks and Free Speech
August 8, 2007 2:31 PM | Comments (6)
The Coming Software Patent Apocalypse
August 5, 2007 7:36 PM | Comments (19)
Revisiting some problems with patents
August 2, 2007 1:26 AM | Comments (138)
Hoppe marches on … in Italy
August 1, 2007 11:37 AM | Comments (3)
New Hoppe — on the Family and Property; and More in Spanish
July 30, 2007 10:59 PM | Comments (1)
Inflammatory Patent Accusations!
July 30, 2007 12:33 PM | Comments (15)
An Overview of Criticisms of Randy Barnett on Iraq and War
July 27, 2007 10:44 AM | Comments (19)
Patents — Prescription for Disaster
July 22, 2007 5:44 PM | Comments (5)
Breakthrough–Apple invents Karaoke!
July 22, 2007 11:24 AM | Comments (3)
Do Patents Discourage Innovation? Yeah. But So What.
July 16, 2007 8:33 AM | Comments (22)
Hoppe in Spanish
July 13, 2007 8:11 AM | Comments (3)
A Critique of Kevin Carson’s Contract Feudalism
June 21, 2007 10:40 AM | Comments (80)
Google does evil
June 21, 2007 12:17 AM | Comments (13)
A Patent Lie
June 9, 2007 3:02 PM | Comments (5)
Brazil and Compulsory Licenses (original; archived comments)
June 8, 2007 10:46 AM | Comments (47)
Hoppe has arrived…..in Italy
June 6, 2007 3:16 PM | Comments (13)
Revolutionary Television Design Killed by Patents
May 29, 2007 3:35 PM | Comments (4)
The stimulating effect of patents
May 24, 2007 9:59 AM | Comments (1)
The FDA-Patent Pharmaceutical mess
May 23, 2007 11:34 AM | Comments (15)
Bush and the Socialist “Law of the Sea Treaty”
May 22, 2007 4:19 PM | Comments (6)
Claremontista defenders of infinite copyright
May 22, 2007 2:26 PM | Comments (56)
Euro-American Transatlantic Union on the way
May 22, 2007 10:49 AM | Comments (4)
Microsoft, Patents, and Open Source Software
May 14, 2007 10:57 AM | Comments (61)
Recent Blockiana
May 9, 2007 5:32 PM | Comments (4)
Patent Law: Baby Steps–Update
April 30, 2007 2:03 PM | Comments (22)
Vonage spared–for now
April 26, 2007 12:00 PM | Comments (3)
The Chilling Effect on Patent Extortion–horrors!
April 13, 2007 9:17 AM | Comments (5)
Epson, Ink, Patents
April 9, 2007 3:11 PM | Comments (182)
Bolick on Judicial Activism (more on libertarian centralism and “the government”)
April 4, 2007 9:53 AM | Comments (3)
Salerno on 10 Austrian Vices and How to Avoid Them
March 30, 2007 4:03 PM | Comments (22)
Copyright and Patent Silliness (Cablevision and Microsoft)
March 26, 2007 9:46 AM | Comments (3)
Hoppe in Indonesian
March 21, 2007 10:12 AM | Comments (1)
Beemer must be next… (BMW, Trademarks, and the letter “M”)
March 20, 2007 6:27 AM | Comments (132)
Feds finally recognize second amendment rights
March 9, 2007 12:30 PM | Comments (9)
G.A. Cohen, the Rothbardian-Hoppean Marxist?
March 9, 2007 1:30 AM | Comments (72)
Hoppean Anarcho-Capitalism in Slate
March 8, 2007 4:59 PM | Comments (6)
Objectivists and Federalism
March 6, 2007 10:21 PM | Comments (25)
Copyrights and Dancing
February 20, 2007 3:39 PM | Comments (233)
Patents kill (according to Crichton)
February 13, 2007 12:31 PM | Comments (125)
Pro wrestler sues rapper over hand gesture: Yet Another Example of how Intellectual Property is Partial Enslavement
January 31, 2007 2:01 PM | Comments (28)
Victo Hugo and Intellectual Property
January 30, 2007 4:39 PM | Comments (3)
re: The problem with “government”: The rejection of federalism by libertarian centralists
January 21, 2007 11:52 AM | Comments (12)
Extreme Praxeology
January 19, 2007 10:30 AM | Comments (2)
Hypocritical Apple (Trademark)
January 11, 2007 4:14 PM | Comments (3)
Hoppe in Georgian
January 7, 2007 11:06 AM | Comments (3)
The problem with “government”: The rejection of federalism by libertarian centralists
January 5, 2007 10:42 AM | Comments (15)
3D Printers and IP: A Modern Fable
January 3, 2007 11:18 PM | Comments (53)
Kodak and Sony End Patent Fight
January 3, 2007 11:15 PM | Comments (5)
Re: Patents and Utilitarian Thinking Redux: Stiglitz on using Prizes to Stimulate Innovation
December 28, 2006 1:21 AM | Comments (53)
Patent Attorney Admission
December 22, 2006 11:19 AM | Comments (259)
Microsoft and Tangibility of Software
December 18, 2006 10:01 AM | Comments (89)
Why I’m a Libertarian — or, Why Libertarianism is Beautiful
December 12, 2006 2:37 PM | Comments (117)
Owning Thoughts and Labor
December 11, 2006 11:50 AM | Comments (190)
Patent Law: Baby Steps
November 29, 2006 1:10 PM | Comments (11)
The Wizard of Oz and Money
November 28, 2006 10:12 AM | Comments (7)
The Health Hazards of NOT Abolishing Patents
November 26, 2006 9:14 PM | Comments (0)
Patents v. Blackberry and Palm … Enter: Google
November 7, 2006 1:30 AM | Comments (5)
Don’t worry–you don’t exist: Or, why long-range planning is really impossible
November 6, 2006 11:20 AM | Comments (21)
Mor IP law “abuse”: NFL Player Sends Mom Cease and Desist Letter for Using His Likeness
November 3, 2006 2:25 PM | Comments (1)
Britain’s copyright laws, based on a 300-year-old statute, desperately need reshaping for the digital age
November 2, 2006 3:16 PM | Comments (3)
Some intimate details on the Google YouTube Deal
October 31, 2006 11:02 AM | Comments (6)
The “tolerated use” of copyrighted works
October 27, 2006 3:10 PM | Comments (1)
Intellectual Property and Think Tank Corruption
October 17, 2006 4:17 PM | Comments (158)
Libertarian Wiki – Resource and Link Guide
October 10, 2006 1:07 PM | Comments (4)
Richard Epstein on “The Structural Unity of Real and Intellectual Property”
October 4, 2006 9:32 PM | Comments (269)
Block on Abortion
October 2, 2006 1:44 PM | Comments (48)
On Patenting Music and Patent Hypocrisy
September 29, 2006 10:19 AM | Comments (1)
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Sean Gabb’s Thoughts on Limited Liability
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IP Imperialism (Russia, Intellectual Property , and the WTO)
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Block debate on minimum wage
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Block on Roberts on Economic Freedom
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Software Patents are not that harmful!
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Patents and Utilitarian Thinking Redux: Stiglitz on using Prizes to Stimulate Innovation
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US Court Sides with spammer
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Kelo — One Year Later
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Kim Davies on the Transcendental Foundations of Ethics
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Microsoft, Open Source Patents, and Incentives
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Religious Studies Prof “Corrects” Block’s Economics
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Scruton on Immigration
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Causation, Spam, and Worms
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Liberty on Immigration
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Miracle–An Honest Patent Attorney!
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How We Come to Own Ourselves
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Empathy and the Source of Rights
September 6, 2006 10:55 AM | Comments (32)
Patenting Language
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Klein’s Judgment on Kirzner’s Alertness
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Only Technology (and Economic Education) Can Save Us
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The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Debate
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Property and Self-Determination
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Spam as a Nuisance
August 28, 2006 1:46 PM | Comments (9)
Chad, Multinational Oil Companies, and International Law on Takings
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The Schizo Feds: Patent Monopolies and the FTC
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Apple Pays Creative $100 Million To Settle Patent Suit
August 24, 2006 9:15 AM | Comments (51)
Tax Protestors Win One
August 23, 2006 2:30 PM | Comments (7)
International Law and the Criminal Court
August 22, 2006 5:55 PM | Comments (14)
Van Dun on Argumentation Ethics
August 22, 2006 4:59 AM | Comments (11)
Investment law decisions supporting multinationals show that libertarian politics is far from dead
August 21, 2006 2:31 PM | Comments (2)
The Scarcity of Time
August 19, 2006 11:49 PM | Comments (24)
The Nature of Economic Analysis
August 19, 2006 9:18 PM | Comments (5)
Galambos and Other Nuts
August 8, 2006 12:48 PM | Comments (39)
Other Top Ten Lists of Libertarian Books
August 7, 2006 1:19 PM | Comments (31)
The Other Fields of Praxeology: War, Games, Voting… and Ethics?
August 5, 2006 1:23 AM | Comments (25)
Top Ten Books of Liberty
August 3, 2006 8:44 PM | Comments (34)
C.P. Snow’s “The Two Cultures” and Misesian Dualism
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Patent Hypocrisy
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Patent Rights Web Poll
July 31, 2006 12:03 PM | Comments (8)
Hoppe and Intellectual Property: On Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
July 31, 2006 1:39 AM | Comments (14)
The Problem With Presidential Signing Statements
July 28, 2006 10:55 AM | Comments (10)
The Limits of Armchair Theorizing: The case of Threats
July 27, 2006 5:19 PM | Comments (7)
Cato on Kelo
July 27, 2006 1:14 PM | Comments (7)
Libertarian CEO TJ Rogers of Cypress Semiconductor on Net Neutrality and Solar Subsidies
July 19, 2006 10:57 AM | Comments (5)
The Problem with “Fraud”: Fraud, Threat, and Contract Breach as Types of Aggression
July 17, 2006 5:51 PM | Comments (87)
Russian Free Trade and Patents
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The Growing Anti-IP Movement
July 13, 2006 10:07 AM | Comments (111)
Taxing Astronauts and the President
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Knowledge vs. Calculation
July 11, 2006 9:24 PM | Comments (8)
Intellectual Property: The New Backlash
July 11, 2006 2:56 PM | Comments (2)
The Wisdom of Ludwig von Mises
July 10, 2006 2:33 PM | Comments (6)
Global Online Freedom
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Block on Kelo and Coase; Block on SPAM
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Machan’s Moral Case for the Free Market
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Block on Radical Libertarianism
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Reason Papers #26 Online
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“A Patent Success Story”
June 26, 2006 10:51 AM | Comments (4)
Patent and Penicillin
June 22, 2006 10:27 PM | Comments (3)
Patent Trolls and Empirical Thinking
June 22, 2006 2:52 PM | Comments (2)
Woops, sorry, Blackberry!
June 22, 2006 11:09 AM | Comments (1)
Open Letter on Immigration
June 20, 2006 1:07 PM | Comments (19)
Battling the Copyright Monster
June 19, 2006 5:13 PM | Comments (9)
Rand and Marx
June 19, 2006 6:59 AM | Comments (63)
Heroic Pirates
June 12, 2006 9:38 PM | Comments (8)
Chinese Innovation
June 7, 2006 9:58 AM | Comments (4)
Protecting Cambodian Morals
June 2, 2006 8:51 AM | Comments (3)
Drug Patents and Welfare
May 31, 2006 3:03 PM | Comments (38)
Thoughts on Intellectual Property, Scarcity, Labor-ownership, Metaphors, and Lockean Homesteading
May 26, 2006 11:54 AM | Comments (98)
Objectivists on IP
May 3, 2006 5:04 PM | Comments (94)
Hoppe in Spanish Article on the “Cause of Sickness”
April 28, 2006 8:59 AM | Comments (2)
Hope you don’t like your DVR
April 14, 2006 10:12 AM | Comments (18)
Watch out, Gwyneth (Apple v. Apple)
March 29, 2006 7:35 AM | Comments (12)
China and Private Courts
March 20, 2006 10:36 AM | Comments (1)
dotCommunists
February 15, 2006 1:46 PM | Comments (4)
Praxeology and Certainty of Knowledge
February 6, 2006 2:20 PM | Comments (14)
Spam, Spyware, Spiders and Trespass
February 2, 2006 2:50 PM | Comments (20)
Book Recommendations: Private, International, and Common Law; Legal Theory
February 2, 2006 11:38 AM | Comments (10)
The Schizophrenic State
January 13, 2006 8:48 AM | Comments (11)
Elaborations on Randian IP
January 5, 2006 9:25 PM | Comments (23)
The Quagmire of Intellectual Property
December 28, 2005 2:38 PM | Comments (40)
New Block Article on Punishing Statists
December 8, 2005 12:37 AM | Comments (9)
For Blackberry Users out there …
December 1, 2005 3:16 PM | Comments (112)
Best Libertarian/Classical Liberal Group Academic Blog
November 29, 2005 11:34 PM | Comments (1)
Patents and Innovation
November 9, 2005 10:34 PM | Comments (1)
The Tax Man
November 9, 2005 11:28 AM | Comments (12)
Heroic Google
November 3, 2005 9:21 AM | Comments (13)
In Defense of the Corporation
October 27, 2005 4:38 PM | Comments (55)
Money in a Two-Person Society
October 26, 2005 10:04 AM | Comments (39)
Hoppe and Free Speech
October 15, 2005 8:34 AM | Comments (20)
Spyware and Trespass
October 12, 2005 11:40 AM | Comments (30)
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October 11, 2005 11:12 AM | Comments (9)
More on Miers
October 10, 2005 7:53 PM | Comments (13)
Austrian Law and Economics
September 18, 2005 1:48 AM | Comments (0)
What’s Next–Patents on Movie Scripts?
September 12, 2005 8:25 AM | Comments (8)
IP vs. Antitrust
September 8, 2005 9:34 AM | Comments (5)
Objectivists on Katrina, or: A pack of wolves unleashed on a pack of sheep
September 7, 2005 12:26 PM | Comments (10)
Hate Crime–Intentional Action and Motivations
July 25, 2005 10:18 AM | Comments (5)
Randian Hoppe(?), Austrian Rand(?)
July 17, 2005 7:53 PM | Comments (27)
Objectivists on Kelo
July 16, 2005 10:53 AM | Comments (4)
Patents and Blood Cells
July 14, 2005 2:47 PM | Comments (19)
Quirk and Bridwell, Judicial Dictatorship
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Heilbroner on Mises and Socialism
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Fusionism
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Regime Libertarians
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Jefferson on Nullification
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Polycentric Law
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McGee and Wellman on Secession
July 8, 2005 5:45 PM | Comments (4)
The Struggle for Law
July 8, 2005 3:36 PM | Comments (0)
More on Kelo and Federalism
July 7, 2005 6:22 PM | Comments (0)
Reason Papers now online
June 29, 2005 11:57 AM | Comments (3)
Woops, They Did It Again (Bad Supreme Court! Bad! Bad!)
June 23, 2005 10:56 AM | Comments (52)
Copyright and Birthday Cakes
June 16, 2005 2:17 PM | Comments (13)
The U.N. Tax vs. The Liberty Committee
June 16, 2005 9:50 AM | Comments (1)
The Bottomless Well
June 10, 2005 5:05 PM | Comments (5)
Friedman and Socialism
June 10, 2005 2:35 PM | Comments (21)
Libertarian Centralists
June 7, 2005 1:57 PM | Comments (11)
Thomas on Marijuana
June 6, 2005 4:44 PM | Comments (26)
Repudiate the Iraqi Debt!
June 2, 2005 11:15 AM | Comments (9)
Heroic Google Fighting Copyright Morass
June 2, 2005 10:07 AM | Comments (0)
Hoppe’s “Natural Elites” in Chinese
April 20, 2005 9:30 AM | Comments (1)
Colby Cosh on Hoppe
April 18, 2005 11:52 PM | Comments (1)
Copyright Gone Mad
April 14, 2005 10:51 PM | Comments (6)
Patents and Peanut Butter Sammiches
April 8, 2005 10:47 AM | Comments (2)
Big Blue Discovers New Way To Leverage Patents
April 8, 2005 10:15 AM | Comments (2)
On Takings and Public Use
April 4, 2005 3:59 PM | Comments (3)
Collegiate Network Cites Hoppe Case
April 1, 2005 7:50 AM | Comments (0)
The Bank of England and Me
March 23, 2005 10:44 AM | Comments (7)
ASC 2005 Pix
March 22, 2005 1:03 PM | Comments (0)
Dr. Hoppe Against Political Correctness
March 16, 2005 7:30 AM | Comments (2)
Why are Austrians Libertarians?
March 8, 2005 3:18 PM | Comments (38)
There is No Such Thing As A Free Patent
March 6, 2005 8:14 PM | Comments (46)
Condemning Patents
February 27, 2005 2:49 AM | Comments (1)
Patents and Utilitarian Thinking
February 25, 2005 11:03 PM | Comments (37)
Copyright and Video Games
February 25, 2005 10:03 PM | Comments (13)
Hoppe matter ‘closed,’ not over (Rebel Yell)
February 24, 2005 11:45 AM | Comments (8)
UNLV supports instructor (Badger Herald)
February 24, 2005 11:44 AM | Comments (1)
Improving Copyright Law: Baby Steps
February 24, 2005 12:15 AM | Comments (4)
Latest on the Hoppe Case
February 19, 2005 12:37 PM | Comments (2)
The Amazing Internet and Mises.org
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Woods Hoppe Letter re UNLV Fracas
February 14, 2005 11:39 PM | Comments (2)
UNLV Student Paper Pro-Hoppe Editorial
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The Thought Police and Hoppe
February 10, 2005 4:43 PM | Comments (25)
UNLV Press Release re Hoppe/Economic Freedom
February 10, 2005 3:42 PM | Comments (4)
Hoppe support letter from R.J. Stove (Australia)
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Hoppe: yet another letter (Kinsella)
February 6, 2005 9:10 PM | Comments (5)
Defend Hoppe
February 6, 2005 1:55 PM | Comments (130)
Mises and Rand (and Rothbard)
February 4, 2005 8:35 PM | Comments (9)
Bush Wants More Jailed Citizens in Russia and China
February 1, 2005 10:33 AM | Comments (17)
French Book on The Economics of Patents and Copyrights
February 1, 2005 10:20 AM | Comments (0)
Cato, Lessig, and Intellectual Property
January 31, 2005 12:54 PM | Comments (4)
The Online Revolution Continues
January 25, 2005 10:46 PM | Comments (0)
Hoppe on Liberal Economies and War
January 25, 2005 4:10 PM | Comments (2)
Good Rothbard Quote
January 25, 2005 3:57 PM | Comments (2)
The Wonderful World of Government Money
January 25, 2005 9:34 AM | Comments (3)
Tin Whiskers
January 7, 2005 9:38 AM | Comments (1)
Mises on Risk
December 24, 2004 9:11 AM | Comments (0)
Future of Freedom Fund
December 15, 2004 5:01 PM | Comments (6)
Putting Humans First
December 8, 2004 9:38 AM | Comments (0)
Block on Restitution
December 7, 2004 11:00 AM | Comments (0)
Thomas Woods on Hannity & Colmes
December 6, 2004 10:22 PM | Comments (7)
Amazon and Poetic Justice
November 8, 2004 4:17 PM | Comments (7)
Copyright and Freedom of Speech
November 8, 2004 9:31 AM | Comments (8)
New Block
November 1, 2004 1:08 PM | Comments (0)
Means and the structure of action
November 1, 2004 10:34 AM | Comments (5)
Block on Hoppe
October 28, 2004 1:04 AM | Comments (0)
Virtual Freedom of Speech
October 19, 2004 2:41 PM | Comments (5)
Kramer on the Constitution
September 27, 2004 1:27 PM | Comments (0)
????? ??? ???: Hoppe in Korean
August 31, 2004 10:13 AM | Comments (2)
Spam and Knocking
August 30, 2004 2:46 PM | Comments (12)
Top Blogs/Sites
August 18, 2004 4:08 PM | Comments (4)
Bassani on Jefferson
July 11, 2004 1:40 AM | Comments (0)
Hoppe on Time Preference
May 14, 2004 9:56 AM | Comments (1)
Walter Block Cornucopia
May 13, 2004 12:30 PM | Comments (0)
Intellectual Property at Mises.org
March 29, 2004 10:53 AM | Comments (9)
Block online
March 26, 2004 9:19 PM | Comments (2)
