Interview 1462 - David K. Levine is Against Intellectual Monopoly

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🗓️ 17 July 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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David K. Levine is an economist at the European University Institute and at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author with Michele Boldrin of Against Intellectual Monopoly, an empirical study of the economics of intellectual property that concludes that IP is not necessary for innovation and as a practical matter is damaging to growth, prosperity and liberty.

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0:00.0	People would write things like, well, we know that you have to have patents in order to have innovation.
0:06.5	And yet, when we go to look at the data, it seems like they're actually maybe bad.
0:11.7	Maybe they reduce innovation.
0:13.1	Maybe they don't hope innovation.
0:14.2	But we can't understand.
0:15.7	How could that be?
0:18.8	You're listening to the Corbett Report.
0:24.5	Welcome, friends James Corbett here at CorbettReport.com.
0:27.0	Today is the 16th of July, 2019.
0:30.4	And today we are joined on the line by David K. Levine, who is available at his website,
0:36.3	dK.levene.com. Of course, the link will be in website, dK.orgine.com.
0:38.3	Of course, the link will be in the show notes for today's episode.
0:41.4	And today we're also going to be talking specifically about a book that David K.
0:45.7	Levine co-wrote with Michaeli Boldrin Against Intellectual Monopoly, which is available in
0:51.8	paperback.
0:52.3	It's also available online through the website. And Again, the link will be in the show notes.
0:56.6	David K. Levine, thank you very much for joining us for today's conversation. Well, thank you for having me.
1:02.3	Let's start by talking a little bit about your background and your bona fides. Who are you and why are you writing about intellectual monopoly?
1:09.5	Okay. Well, I am and have been for many years now an economics professor.
1:14.9	I mostly, for a long part of my career, we studied game theory and general equilibrium
1:20.4	theory as a dearest, and I was in fact drawn into the area of intellectual monopoly or property
1:26.9	through my theoretical work.
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