Two researchers at the Mercatus Center, a think tank that produces excellent research on any number of economic issues, have published a challenge to intellectual property — trademark, copyright, and patents. The paper ridicules claims made by a number or sources in the last few years that laws which protect intellectual property (IP) create jobs. For example, The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Intellectual Property Center, which estimates that 55.7 million jobs are created by IP. The paper challenges the evidence presented by these sources, and rebuts them with — to be blunt — a purely theoretical, evidence-free argument.
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Research and commentary from a former senior executive in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
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