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Economics of Ideas and Intellectual Property
The authors examine the underlying economics of the market for ideas from a positive and normative perspective. They highlight recent research by ourselves and others challenging the notion that government awards of monopoly through patents and copyright are ?the wy to provide appropriate incentives for innovation.
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http://minneapolisfed.org/research/sr/sr357.pdf