The DOI matches its Crossref record; 87 of the 87 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Against Intellectual Monopoly
Abstract
'Intellectual property' - patents and copyrights - have become controversial. We witness teenagers being sued for 'pirating' music - and we observe AIDS patients in Africa dying due to lack of ability to pay for drugs that are high priced to satisfy patent holders. Are patents and copyrights essential to thriving creation and innovation - do we need them so that we all may enjoy fine music and good health? Across time and space the resounding answer is: No. So-called intellectual property is in fact an 'intellectual monopoly' that hinders rather than helps the competitive free market regime that has delivered wealth and innovation to our doorsteps. This book has broad coverage of both copyrights and patents and is designed for a general audience, focusing on simple examples. The authors conclude that the only sensible policy to follow is to eliminate the patents and copyright systems as they currently exist.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
On the mechanics of economic development
Lucas, R. E. (1988) · Journal of Monetary Economics · doi:10.1016/0304-3932(88)90168-7 · Cited by 24,085
The Theory of Economic Development
Schumpeter, J., & Backhaus, U. (2006) · The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences · doi:10.1007/0-306-48082-4_3 · Cited by 22,506
Increasing returns and long-run growth
Romer, P. M. (1986) · Journal of Political Economy · doi:10.1086/261420 · Cited by 20,149
Endogenous Technological Change
Romer, P. (1989) · National Bureau of Economic Research · doi:10.3386/w3210 · Cited by 13,303
The Theory of Industrial Organization
Jean Tirole, Z. (1988) · MIT Press Books · Cited by 8,651
Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention
Arrow, K. J. (1962) · The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity · doi:10.1515/9781400879762-024 · Cited by 8,635
A Model of Growth Through Creative Destruction
Aghion, P., & Howitt, P. (1990) · National Bureau of Economic Research · doi:10.3386/w3223 · Cited by 5,634
von Hippel, E. (2007) · Das Summa Summarum des Management · doi:10.1007/978-3-8349-9320-5_10 · Cited by 5,098
Structure and Change in Economic History
George, P., & North, D. C. (1983) · The Canadian Journal of Economics · doi:10.2307/135165 · Cited by 4,564
Scale Economies, Product Differentiation, and the Pattern of Trade
(1990) · Rethinking International Trade · doi:10.7551/mitpress/5933.003.0005 · Cited by 4,464
Cited by
Bell, G., Hey, T., & Szalay, A. (2009) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1170411 · Cited by 537
Patents and Innovation: Evidence from Economic History
Moser, P. (2013) · Journal of Economic Perspectives · doi:10.1257/jep.27.1.23 · Cited by 452
Boldrin, M., & Levine, D. K. (2013) · Journal of Economic Perspectives · doi:10.1257/jep.27.1.3 · Cited by 401
Self-citationCompetition and Innovation: The Inverted-U Relationship Revisited
Hashmi, A. R. (2013) · The Review of Economics and Statistics · doi:10.1162/rest_a_00364 · Cited by 326
Gans, J. S., & Stern, S. (2010) · Industrial and Corporate Change · doi:10.1093/icc/dtq023 · Cited by 203
Metadata
- Authors
- Boldrin, M., & Levine, D. K.
- Venue
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2008-07-07
- OpenAlex
- W1522849924
- Cited by
- 888
- References
- 87
- FWCI
- 116.24
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Against Intellectual Monopoly. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1017/cbo9780511510854
- The paper
- Boldrin, M., & Levine, D. K. (2008). Against Intellectual Monopoly. Cambridge University Press eBooks. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511510854
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
