Explanations for slow global growth (secular stagnation) correctly focus on income
inequality and wage formation but are incomplete. They ignore the source of wages and fail …

Changes in firm strategy and structure partially explain the sources and consequences of
rising wealth inequality in America. Combining use of state-created monopolies around …

* Highlights the hazards facing intellectual property protection in the information age.* IBM
estimates profits from licensing technologies in 2000 were $1.5 billion.* US pharma …

The last three decades have witnessed the emergence of a new species of capitalism. In
spite of marked differences between its national varieties, a common characteristic of this …

This paper advances the hypothesis that some of the roots of the present crisis are to be
found in the present institutions of the knowledge economy. While protectionism is seen as a …

The dramatic expansion of intellectual property rights represents a new stage in
commodification that threatens to make virtually everything bad about capitalism even …

In contemporary global capitalism, the most powerful corporations are innovation or
intellectual monopolies. The book's unique perspective focuses on how private ownership …

This book asks whether patents and copyrights are essential to creation and innovation
based on recent controversies in intellectual property. The authors found that a teenager …

In the modern theory of growth, monopoly plays a crucial role both as a cause and an effect
of innovation. Innovative firms, it is argued, would have insufficient incentive to innovate …

The literature on dynamic intellectual property protection (IPP) often assumes a single
margin of innovation, implying that the innovator cannot reassign research efforts among …