Contingency Markets and IP
May 25Defenders of IP often ask how creative artists could get paid for their work if anyone were free to copy it. The short answer, of course, is: if imaginative entrepreneurs who stand to make a profit from solving such problems are left free to act, “the market will take care of it.” Check out the [...]
How to Convert a Big Tent Into a Small One
May 25Keith Preston (about whose work I’ve blogged here and here) has long been controversial in left-libertarian circles; he’s attracted praise for his economic analysis (see, e.g. his excellent essay “Free Enterprise: The Antidote to Corporate Plutocracy”), but criticism for a) his big-tent strategy of making common cause with all opponents of the central state, including [...]
The Streets of San Francisco
May 19I’m off to San Francisco for a Liberty Fund conference on Chinese philosophy; back on Sunday. (My flight doesn’t actually leave until tomorrow morning, but it leaves from Atlanta too early for the shuttle to get me there, so I’m taking the shuttle this afternoon and staying overnight in Atlanta.) We’re reading Kongfuzi, Laozi, Mozi, [...]
How to Annoy a Conservative
May 19The next time you hear a conservative blaming the government for something, tell them, “oh, so you’re part of the ‘blame America first’ crowd?”
Rainbow and Bridges?
May 18According to Olbermann, if the u.s. govt were abolished, crime would rise and we’d immediately be conquered by other countries. Oh yeah, just like Somalia? I didn’t bother writing him this time. The man is impervious.
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