Hitchens No Orwell

Ian Murray seamus2001 at home.com
Wed Apr 18 10:21:10 PDT 2001


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> As a fan (and student of Boyle), the Right in no way wants to assimilate
> Boyle's full out assault on markets and his disdain for pretty much the
> whole structure of profit-making structures in IP industries. I recommend
> his SHAMANS, SOFTWARE & SPLEENS as a great very readable overview of a whole
> range of economic and legal issues in these areas.
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The chapters on "Information Economics" and "The Public and Private Realms" alone are worth the price of the book. Michael Perelman's RRPE piece "High Technology, Intellectual Property and Public Goods: The Rationality of Socialism" is cited TWICE
:-) in the book....

Ian



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