Thailand & China

Brad De Long delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Thu Feb 17 07:07:41 PST 2000



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>I like Sweeney's quote at the end of the following story. So Brad - if I may
>call you that - enforcing intellectual property rights isn't redlining?
>(would Castells see it so?) I mean, didn't the developed world become so by
>in part by running roughshod over intellectual property rights? Why yank the
>ladder up after us by enforcing intellectual property rights?

Because we're greedy and immoral fools?

The way that intellectual property "rights" have been expanding (both domestically and internationally) is, I think, a really bad idea...

Brad DeLong



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