Chapter 22 of 22 · It's a Jetsons World: Private Miracles and Public Crimes by Jeffrey A. Tucker
Index
Index
A
Affluent Society, The, 236
Against Intellectual Monopoly
case against patents, 208–10
general equilibrium, 204
intellectual property is a cancer, 215
mind-blowing experience, 178
property, 200
Schumpeter, Joseph, 204
think carefully, 187
unadulterated fantasy, 188
AIG, 250
Albornoz, Bartolomé de, 22
Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, 110
Arezzo, Guido d’, 187
Aristotle, 20
Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers, 194
B
Bach, J.S., 127
bedbugs, 240–42
Benetton family, 190
Bernstein, William J., 127–29
Big Easy, 72
Billboard, 24
Black, Rebecca, 99
Boehringer Ingelheim, 223
Böhm-Bawerk, Eugen von, 177
Boldrin and Levine
Against Intellectual Monopoly, 178
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, copyrights, 197
competition, 203
cooperative work, 208
copyright legislation, 196
innovations, source of, 211, 212
intellectual monopoly, 167, 192, 194
intellectual property, abolishing, 216
patent costs, 192
Red Hat, 186
Seldon’s road engine patent, 194
Beethoven, Ludwig von, 179, 202, 209
Bell, Alexander, 208
Bourbon for Breakfast, 111
Boxer Rebellion, 152
Brooks, Mel, 99
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, copyrights, 197
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, Mars series, 197
Bush, George W., 13, 77, 78, 80, 223, 250
Bush’s regulation, 229
Buxtehude, Dieterich, 178–79
C
capital
capital-goods sector, 161
earnings relative to, 231
free labor markets, 203
goods, 286
intellectual, 208
Man, Economy, and State, 160
Marxian crisis theory, 230
owners, 247
prices, 231
private, 232
privatization, 203
Pure Theory of Capital, The, 160
stock, 232
taxes, 232
test of the value, 160
what is, 160
capitalism
Affluent Society, The, 236
against the term, 160
armaments industry, 169
bestowing blessings, 165
black death, 241
cooperative and competitive, 18
critique of, 236
democratization of wealth, 161
elitism of the Left, 110
essence of, 149
fake examples, 169
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 236
genius of, 39
government intervention, 169
Green, Hetty, 143
intellectual property, abolishing, 216
Marx, Karl, 235
monopoly problem, 191
Nation, The, 233
perfect term, 161
productive good, 143
regulatory thicket, 242
rhetoric of the Left, 247
Rothbard, Murray N., 236
Schumpeter, Joseph, 245
sin of, 236
soul of capitalism, 110
tragedy of, 245
universalizing things, 110
Carnegie, Andrew, 208
Carter’s inflation, 229
Cayley, George, 207
cereals, popular, 68
Chain Store Age, 24
ChemLawn, 46
Cheng Ho Day, 214
Chodorov, Frank, 218
Clinton’s Fabianism, 229
Clooney, George, 63
Coffee Cantata, 127
Columbus, Christopher, 71
Consumer Reports, 282
copyright
abolish, 182
advertising, 191
American publishers, nineteenth century, 186
bogus, 196
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, Mars series, 197
chains, 196
common-law standards, 177
Constitutional endorsement, 184
conventional theory wrong, 198
cooperative process shut down, 198
costs of government regulation, 209
countries with no copyright legislation, 209
Creative Commons, 199
digital age, 196
general equilibrium, 204
imitation or emulation, 178, 205
International, 196
kingly permission, 196
law, 31
monopoly, 183
musical staff, 187
mythology, 195
pizza, 206
porn, 188
Prohibition-style moment, 214
public-domain, 199
reform proposals, 215
registrations, 196
repeal of, 198
state-authorized theft, 199
YouTube, 214
Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, 248
Crest, 85
Curtiss, Glenn, 207
CVS, 46
D
Davies, Clive, 281
Day, Benjamin, 187
Department of Homeland Security, 78
desertion, 270–73
Designed for the Environment, 281
digital age, 50, 99, 182, 196, 219
DiLorenzo, Thomas, 248
division of labor
capital, 238
cooperative human effort, 280
entrepreneurship, 286
freedom, 245
government regulation, 283
individual preferences, 39
logic of, 94
market-based opportunities, 124
drinking age, 57–61
drug question, 138
E
Economic Policy Journal, 221
economic exchange, 20, 21, 22, 213
economics
Against Intellectual Monopoly, 195
capital scarcity, 161
central insight, 159
forward motion, 133
geeks, 12
Haitian, 157
happy feet, 151
homesteading, 71
Imitation, 179
intellectual property, 200
reality, 134
religious people, 171
repair or replace, 92
scarcity, 172
theory of exchange, 21
value equivalence, fallacy of, 22
Economics of Prohibition, The, 58
Economist, The, 204
Education and Peace, 169
Elliot, T.S., 67
Enemy at the Gates, 271
exchange
Aquinas, St. Thomas, 21
Bernstein, William J., 127
capital, essentiality of, 159
cash, 105
Clinton, William J., 33, 229, 247, 248
commercial, 19
cooperation, 138
correct theory, 21
Depression and the Profit System, 230
economic exchange, 213
essence of, 20
Facebook, 220
free exchanges, 121
gold-exchange standard, 232
Halloween trading, 116
human associations, 21
imitation as a social force, 203
indirect exchange, 117
logic, 22
Misesian, plain state of rest, 120
monopoly, 215
mutually beneficial, 21, 105, 129, 143
patents and copyrights, 182, 199
regulations and taxes, 104
scarcity, 172
Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World, A, 127
unequal valuations, 21
value equivalence, fallacy of, 22
F
alleged crimes, 217
allegory of government oppression, 261
early challenges and hate campaigns, 219
Government Network, The, 222
intellectual property, 219
intelligentsia disparagement, 217, 221
marketplace winners and losers, 220
Mises Blog and LvMI’s Facebook page, 24
Napster, 221
Parker, Sean, 221
relationship status, 220
social network, 218
stake in the profits, 220
victim of vituperative campaign, 217
voluntary, 217
watched by all my friends, ix
website crucial feature, 220
Winklevoss twins, 219, 220, 221
word-of-mouth in Haiti, 158
Zuckerberg, Mark, 217, 218, 222
FDR’s war socialism, 229
Food, Inc., 167
Ford Motor Co., 51
Francis, Day & Hunter, 188
free market
Affluent Society, The, 236
Against Intellectual Monopoly, 187
agenda for, 105
agri-patents, 169
Boldrin and Levine, 194
capitalistic exploitation, 168
contribution to common well-being, 22
coordinating powers, 154
copyright protection, 188
copyright workaround, 199
Creative Commons, 199
crushing upstarts, 249
Erhard, Ludwig, 249–50
Flynn, John T., full-blown embrace, 141
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 236
government intervention, 236
Green, Hetty, someone so awful, 143
hate for private, capitalistic institutions, 216
Hazlitt, Henry, secret to the Crash, 231
health care, 1
incandescent v. fluorescent bulbs, 240
intellectual monopoly, 202
intellectual property enforcement, 244
mercantilism refuted, 187
mutual agreement, principle of, 170
open-source software, 185
pharm-patent freedom, 211
pirates, 187
porn, 188
progress generated, 134
Recording Industry Association of America, 187
Rothbard, Murray N., 236
Russia and socialism, 17
state coercion, 216
Taoist-like balance, 169
freedom
Against Intellectual Monopoly, 178
bear is hibernating, 81
buy and sell, 40
capitalism, 160
civilization, 245
constructivist point of view, 137
Creative Commons, 199
demise of, 80
division of labor, 49
globalization, 50
government, essence of, 269
human right, 102
individuation, process of, 37
intellectual freedom, advantages, 202
Liberalism, 250
monopoly conditions, 203
partying and state authority, 100
pharm-patent, 211
process of individuation, 37
Prohibition-style moment, intellectual property, 214
Prohibition, 58
revolution, 50
risks and paying the price, 108
rule of law, 56
special zones, 138
state authority and partying, 100
statism, 199
theory of freedom, 8
U.S. foreign policy and Bush, 77
French, Doug, 145
Friday video, 102
G
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 236
Gallaway, Lowell, 233
geeks and wonks
battle between, 12
Brutus, geek, 13
Bush or Obama, wonk, 13
Caesar, wonk, 13
characterize wonks, 12
effect of ideals, 13
geek, or wonk, 13
Hamilton, wonk, 13
ideas, drawn to, 12
Jefferson, geek, 13
music geeks, 213
policy, 12
political theory, 11
power of ideas, 13
Ron Paul, geek, 13
this book and geeks, 182
wonks characterize geeks, 12
wonks, working with, 12
Gilded Age, 131, 141, 143, 146
Google Books, 244
Google Labs, 163
Google News, 226
Google Print, 195
Gosplan, 5
Government Network, The, 222
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, 38
H
Hayek, F.A., 135, 160, 177, 197, 205
Hazlitt, Henry
ambiguous thing called Planning, 233
Austrian business cycle theory, 232
Crash, secret of, 231
Depression and the Profit System, 230
Depression, 229
Dissent, 234
fallacy of selection, 230
FDR, criticisms of, 229
fired, 234
Fischer, Louis, 230
Gallaway, Lowell, 233
Higgs, Robert, 233
Howe, Irving, 234
Johnson, Paul, 233
malinvestment, 232
Marxian theory, 231
Modern Times, 233
Nation, The, 229
Out of Work, 233
private capital, 232
Rothbard, Murray, 233
Vedder, Richard, 233
health care costs, 265–67
homesteading, 71–77
Honey Smacks, 46
Hoon, Geoff, 269
Horton Hears a Who, 181
Howe, Irving, 234
Human Action, 37
I
imitation
costly, 205
economic affairs, 179
emulation, 108
improvement, 201
learning through emulation, 204
piracy, 190
process of, 208
social force, 203
Walrasian box, 205
ways to respond, 180
In Restraint of Trade, 248
incandescent light bulb, 239, 240
Industrial Revolution, 182
intellectual property
abolishing, 216
Against Intellectual Monopoly,
Boldrin and Levine, 194
capitalists, please pay attention, 216
creators’ property rights, 183
enforcement, 244
Facebook, 219
government-privileged monopolist, 177
intellectual monopoly, 182
internet, 244
Kinsella, Stephan, 177
legal extortion scheme, 220
mercantilism, 213
mercantilist myths, 215
patents and copyrights, 178, 189
predatory private interests, 244
property and competition, 200
repeal of, 177
social theory implications, 178
trade protection, 213
Winklevoss twins, 219
wrongheaded idea, 210
Zuckerberg’s squabbles, 221
iPhone, 3, 27, 49, 145, 202, 240
J
Jackson, Henry B., 207
Jesus, 173–75
Johnson, Paul, 233
Johnson’s Great Society, 229
K
K-cup, 37–39
Kellogg, John Harvey, 67
Kinsella, Stephan, 177
Kluger, Jeffrey, 276
Kroc, Ray, 189
L
Last, Jonathan, 275
Laundry Institute, 280
Liberalism, 250
liberty
Against Intellectual Monopoly, 215
America’s central plan, 5
Boldrin and Levine, 216
drug question, 138
For a New Liberty, 249
free society, 61
freedom, 102
freedom, contradicted and violated, 8
Friday, 99
Gosplan, 5
Homesteading, 71
human choice, unpredictability of, 99
Liberalism, 250
liberty works, 138
Paul, Ron, 138
police-state impositions, 60
precondition of liberty, 158
Prohibition, 58
repeal the national minimum drinking age, 61
self-organized social order, 71
shop closing laws, 135
special interests, 227
statist constructivists, 135
Texas Republicans, 80
Tyranny, 80
U.S. Code, 5
weekend, 100
Life Magazine, 25
Lilienthal, Otto, 207
Linux, 186
Lockean rule, 75
Lockean-libertarian tradition, 71
Lodge, Oliver, 207
Lora, Manuel, 71
Lugz, 179
M
Machlup, Fritz, 177
Madoff, Bernie, 257–59
Mahler, Gustav, 179
Man, Economy, and State, 160
market-based social order, 177
market economy
civilizing effect, 123
contribution of free markets, 22
digital universe, 17–18
institutional force, 3
miracles by the minute, 10
monopoly problem, 191
prices, 153
real-world experience, 92
value equivalence in exchange, fallacy of, 22
McDonald’s, 46, 84–85, 109, 110, 136, 189
Men of Wealth, 141
Menger, Carl, 177
mercantilism, 187, 188, 204, 213,
Meucci, Antonio, 208
militarization of the Jetsons, 285–89
minimum wage, 104, 111, 145, 148,
Miron, Jeffrey A., 59
Mises
Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, 110
business cycle, Austrian theory, 232
capitalism, 161
copyright, 197
critique of socialism, 170
eBooks, 50
Erhard, Ludwig, 149
free goods, 201
freedom, 245
Google Labs translation, 163–64
government, essence of, 269
Hazlitt, Henry, 232
intellectual property, 205
military, 270
Mises Academy software, 49
Mises Wiki,3
Misesian bent, 119
Misesian plain state of rest, 120
monopoly problem, 191
patents, 177
Prosperity through Competition, 149
public domain, 197
Sennholz, Hans, 105
Sidor, Peter, 3
time resource, 137
Mises Institute, 50, 105, 112, 197, 200, 245
Mises, Ludwig von, 51, 232, 269
monopoly see also Against Intellectual Monopoly
monopoly see also intellectual monopoly
benefit, 192
doctors and pharmacies, 207
everyone wants, 182
innovation v., 191
Middle Ages, 215
myth of necessity, 215
patents and copyrights, 182–83, 193
prolonged, 202
relinquish, 185
thriving market, 206
wealth creation, 184
Montessori, Maria, 169
MPAA, 215
Murphy, Robert, 159
N
NAFTA, 129
National Institute on Drug Abuse, 59
Netflix, 31
New Deal, 144, 229, 233–35, 248, 249
New York Sun, 187
Newman, Paul, 39
Nicomachean Ethics, 20
Nixon’s price controls, 229
Nock, Albert Jay, 218
Nokia, 193
nonscarce goods
economization, 172
free goods, 169
limitlessness of salvation, 176
moral norm, 175
production and distribution, 176
religious milieu. 171
scarce v. nonscarce goods, 172–74
North, Gary, 151
O
Obama, Barack Hussein auto-defrost, 23
Bush/Obama bailouts, 250
Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, 248
government regulations, 23–27
grandiose shifts, 247
OPP, 63–65
Oppenheimer, Franz, 218
Oracle Corporation, 193
oriented polypropylene, 63
P
Pasta Connection, 84
patents, see also Against Intellectual Monopoly
patents see also intellectual property
abuse, 194
acquisition and enforcement, 195
advance and emulate, 26
Against Intellectual Monopoly, 188
agri-patents, 167–70
basic sciences, 189
biotechnology, 168
book and music killers, 195
cartelize the market, 249
categories, extended, 214
coercion, 169
conventional theory, 193
costs. seen and unforeseen, 191, 195
Creative Commons, 199
creator’s property rights, 183
defensive, 193
Economist, The, cannot be just, 204
Fischer, Louis, 232
Gates, Bill, 185
government monopolies, 177
Hazlitt, Henry, 232
hoax, 207
innovations, no patents, 191
legal suits, 178
legislation, England historical, 184
life saving, 209
patent-based historiography, 207
patent-free development, 189
patents v. innovation, 208
pharmaceuticals, 210–12
Plant Patent Act of 1930, 167
problem of, 167
progress impeded, 208
protection, 187
refrigeration defrost, 24
Schumpeter, Joseph, 204
slows down development, 137
Stigler, George, 189
thicket, 211
Watt, James, 182
Whitney, Eli, 190
PATRIOT Act, 223
Penn, Sean, 158
Permanent Things, 67
phenylephrine, 223
pig, Texas wild, 253
Plant Variety Protection Act, 168
Pope Clement VIII, 127
Popov, Aleksander, 207
Popular Science, 24
private enterprise, 2, 26, 131, 229, 255
private property, 41, 116, 200, 229, 254
Producers, The, 99
Prohibition, 5, 58, 59, 60, 214, 224
property rights
Against Intellectual Monopoly, 200
creator dictates, 183
innovator rights, 183
limitations informed valuations, 16
monopoly, 183
post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, 185
property in ideas, 200
scarcity, 176
Prosperity through Competition, 249
Pure Theory of Capital, The, 160
R
Ratatouille, 181
Reagan’s deficit spending, 229
Red Hat, 186
Relevant Technological Unit, 75
revolution
Against Intellectual Monopoly, 181
Arby’s, 83
capital-goods sector, 161
cultural revolution, 85
economic revolutions, 185
fast food, 83
FDR’s monetary and fiscal revolution, 230
freedom for one and all, 50
Garrett, Garet, 229
historical turning point, 50
ideals, effect of, 13
industrial revolution, x, 161, 182
intellectual property, 188
iTunes, 31
liberal revolution, mistake of, 188
Market Fresh Sandwich, 84
market position, 132
Netflix, 31
New Deal, 235
PirateBay, 31
revolutionary change, 12
Stigler, George, 189
teeth-whitening strips, 85
teeth, color of, 83
Texan revolutionaries, 81
Watt, James, 182
RIAA, 215
Ricardo, David, 51
RiceTec, 193
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 229, 233
Rothbard, Murray
business of war, 248
capitalism, sin of, 236
capitalist owned structure, 160
copyrights, 177
desertion penalty, 272
For A New Liberty, 60
Hazlitt, Henry, 233
Man, Economy, and State, 160
patents, 177
Relevant Technological Unit, 75
Rothbard Rule, 129
Walrasian box, 205
war, business of, 248
Rumsfeld, Donald, 270
S
Savogran, 275
Scowcroft, Brent, 80
Seldon, George, 194
self-improvement, 149
Sennholz, Hans, 105
Shaffer, Butler, 248
shoes, 151–55
shop-closing laws, 135–37
Sidor, Peter, 3
social order
limits and opportunities, 285
market-based, 177
property, competition and imitation, 203
self-organized, 71
theory of, 129
socialism
agri-patents, 167
capitalism failed, 230
Hazlitt, Henry, 233
long-term value, 92
Misesian critique, 170
nutty idea, 169
replacement parts, 92
scarce goods, 174
statist juggernaut, 229
war socialism, 248
Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World, A, 127
St. Augustine, 174
Star Wars: Revelations, 31
state, the
absence of, 7
anachronism, 7
apparatus of compulsion and coercion, x
banned phosphates, 276
Bush/Obama bailouts, 250
cash payments, 103
civilizations enemy, 227
drug question, 138
enforcing state edicts, 269
first-ownership rights, 254
free enterprise and pigs, 253
free enterprise, 6
General Electric, 250
Gods and Generals, 270
government-created rules, 55
human choice, 51
irrelevant, 1
legal suppression of literary work, 198
liberty works, 137
literary work, legal suppression of, 198
looting by the state, 162
managing the whole of life, 6
ownership, concept of, 75
Paul, Ron, 138
phosphates, banned, 276
pointless device, 288
Porn, 188
power and glory, 106
principles, x private property, 254
private sector, 56
Prohibition, 59
public indifference, 79
regime uncertainty, 161
resource allocation, 137
rule ambiguity, 56
self-government, right of, 271
services of, 104
state-controlled environments, 102
student-loan debt, 113
Tangled, 261
technology, state provided, 236
voluntary action and exchange, x
volunteering, 113
workaround, 8
statist juggernaut, 229
Bush’s regulation, 229
Carter’s inflation, 229
Clinton’s Fabianism, 229
FDR’s war socialism, 229
Johnson’s Great Society, 229
Nixon’s price controls, 229
Reagan’s deficit spending, 229
Truman’s unionism, 229
Steinreich, Dale, 115
Stigler, George, 189
student loans, 113
sustainability literature, 236
T
T.J. Cinnamons, 84
Tangled, 261
Target, 110
teeth-whitening strips, 85
Tesla, Nikola, 207
Tetelbaum, Elina, 59
Thornton, Mark, 58
Tiananmen Square, 71
Tom Sawyer, 34
Triarc Restaurant Group, 84
trisodium phosphate, 275, 278, 280
TruGreen, 46
Truman’s unionism, 229
Twain, Mark, 34
U
U.S. Constitution, 5, 58, 78, 184, 286
Up in the Air, 63
V
Vedder, Richard, 233
voluntary military, 269–73
W
Wanamaker, John, 148
Watt, James, 182
Weekly Standard, 275
Wendy’s, 85
Whitney, Eli, 190
Winklevoss, Cameron and Tyler, 219, 220
witch of Wall Street, 141
wonks see geeks and wonks
Y
YouTube, 15, 99, 188, 214, 237
Z
Zietzke, Matt, 261
Zuckerberg, Mark
creative path-breaking, 218
digital enterprise, 221
Economic Policy Journal, 221
Facebook founder, 217
Harvard Connection, 219
Harvard University, 218
IP litigation, 220
Social Network, The, 217
someone else’s notion, 220
Winklevoss, Cameron and Tyler, 219
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