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An Economic Review of the Patent System
1958
by
Machlup
Fritz Machlup
Innovation
Liberalism
Knowledge Economics
Property Rights
Industrial Revolution
Otto von Bismarck
Customs Union
Free Trade
Protectionism
Utility
International Trade
Public Goods
Adam Smith
Classical Economics
Economic History
Jeremy Bentham
John Stuart Mill
Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi
Albert Schaffle
Austrian School
Creative Destruction
Friedrich von Wieser
Joseph Schumpeter
Leon Walras
Lionel Robbins
Ludwig von Mises
Monopoly
Alfred Marshall
Economic Policy
Friedrich A. Hayek
John Bates Clark
Irving Fisher
Externalities
Frank Knight
Joan Robinson
Investment
Opportunity Cost
Resource Allocation
Natural Law
Marginal Cost
Welfare Economics
Diminishing Returns
Valuation
Discount Rate
Income Distribution
Uncertainty
American Revolution
Table of Contents · 36 segments
1
Title Page and Publication Information
essay
2
Foreword
essay
3
Contents and Publications of the Subcommittee
essay
4
Introduction: Definition and Scope of Patents
chapter
5
Historical Survey: Early History Before 1624
chapter
6
Historical Survey: Spread of the Patent System, 1624–1850
chapter
7
Historical Survey: Rise of the Antipatent Movement, 1850–1873
chapter
8
Historical Survey: Victory of Patent Advocates, 1873–1910
chapter
9
Institutional Facts and Problems: Conditions, Procedures, and Limits of Patent Protection
chapter
10
Institutional Facts and Problems: Abuse of the Patent Monopoly
chapter
11
Institutional Facts and Problems: Compulsory Licensing
chapter
12
Institutional Facts and Problems: Patent Reform, Alternatives, and International Patent Relations
chapter
13
Economic Theory: Early Economic Opinion, 1750–1850
theoretical
14
Continuation of Early Economic Opinion on Patent Protection
essay
15
Chief Arguments for Patent Protection
theoretical
16
Nineteenth-Century Critiques of Patent Arguments (1850–1873)
essay
17
Modern Opinion After 1873: Property in Ideas, Patent Monopoly, and Creative Destruction
essay
18
Modern Opinion: Patents, Monopoly Power, and Competition
essay
19
Modern Opinion: Reward Theory, Social Usefulness, and Patent Duration
essay
20
Modern Opinion: Disclosure of Secrets and the Profit-Incentive Justification
essay
21
Modern Opinion: Incentives to Invent, Resource Diversion, and Corporate Research
essay
22
Modern Opinion: Development Costs, Utilization, and Natural Headstart
essay
23
Modern Opinion: Imitation Lag, External Economies, and the Patent Paradox
essay
24
Modern Opinion: Concentration, Suppression of Patents, and Obsolescence
essay
25
Modern Critiques of Patents and Basic Economic Allocation Questions
theoretical
26
Competitive Research, Serendipity, and Fallacies in Patent Theory
theoretical
27
Private and Social Cost and Value: Basic Concepts
theoretical
28
The Cost and Value of Inventions
theoretical
29
The Cost and Value of Additional Inventions
theoretical
30
Continuation: Costs of Extending Patent Monopoly
theoretical
31
K. Shortening or Lengthening the Duration of Patents
theoretical
32
L–M. Compulsory Licensing and Restrictive Licensing
theoretical
33
N. Evaluation of the Patent System as a Whole
essay
34
O. Concluding Remarks
essay
35
List of Publications Cited
bibliography
36
Index of Names
bibliography