[LINK] Gittins on IP and the FTA

[Roger Clarke]

>On 26 Jul 2004 Richard Chirgwin forwarded:
>>The thing to get clear from the outset is that IP is an unnatural act.

David Boxall <david.boxall at hunterlink.net.au>:
>That's a bit harsh.  A necessary evil, perhaps.

If you subscribe to even the gentler forms of positivist economics, 
it's usefully depicted as 'an unnatural act', in order to convey that 
it's an intervention that's extremely difficult to justify in 
macro-economic or social terms - and of course to convey that it's 
heinous, unspeakable ...

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