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3 years ago

in Liberty, Desert, and the Market on Will Wilkinson
I find chocolate to be far from quiet. It speaks to me, imploring me to eat it.

But seriously, that line was great.

3 years ago

in Institutions, Boundaries, and Useless Statistics on Will Wilkinson
Lovely graphs, although if Javier's right some may be lovely but misleading. The patent graph, also, should be taken with a grain of salt; you file patents in the US only if you care about competing in the US, which biases the graph towards cities with multinationals, etc. The picture is a bit unclear on how it's aggregating USPTO vs. WIPO data, etc.; but no matter how it does it, it's clearly biased against local-knowledge and incremental innovation embodied purely in production processes rather than legal rights. And, of course, this only emphasizes how important it is to get our rules on IP right--have you checked out Levine and Boldrin's -Against Intellectual Monopoly- draft?
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