History Lessons: The Early Development of Intellectual Property Institutions in the United States

Khan, B. Zorina; Sokoloff, Kenneth L.

doi:10.1257/jep.15.3.233

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“…16 These findings are consistent with the fact that European immigrants brought with them intermediate levels of genetic diversity which stimulated economic growth through 15. We refer to Lamoreaux and Sokoloff (1999), Khan and Sokoloff (2001), and Lamoreaux and Sokoloff (2002) for a more detailed discussion about the U.S. patent system during the nineteenth century.…”

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Immigrants' Genes: Genetic Diversity and Economic Development in the United States

Ager

Brüeckner

2017

Economic Inquiry

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This paper examines the relationship between immigrants' genetic diversity and economic development in the United States during the late nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries, a period commonly referred to as the age of mass migration from Europe to the New World. Our panel model estimates show that during this period, immigrants' genetic diversity is significantly positively correlated with measures of U.S. counties' economic development. There exists also a significant positive relationship between immigrants' genetic diversity in 1870 and contemporaneous measures of U.S. counties' average income. (JEL J11, O51, Z13)

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“…We refer to Lamoreaux and Sokoloff (), Khan and Sokoloff (), and Lamoreaux and Sokoloff () for a more detailed discussion about the U.S. patent system during the nineteenth century.…”

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Immigrants' Genes: Genetic Diversity and Economic Development in the United States

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Brüeckner

2017

Economic Inquiry

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“…Peer-to-peer, newsgroups, chat groups, electronic bulletin boards, and websites have, in some cases, become the vehicles for free downloads to members of the virtual community. Concerns about the use of various technologies for copying the work of others are not new, nor are the legal or other attempts to control copying (Khan & Sokoloff, 2001;Rose, 2005), although most recent attention from public policy makers has been concentrated on digital intellectual property (Givon, Mahajan, & Muller, 1995;Sparshott, 2004). Consumer research on the topic has examined copying behaviour in fairly narrow contexts (Levin, Dato-on, & Rhee, 2004).…”

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The effects of consumers’ ethical beliefs on copying behaviour

2006

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Computer technologies, in general, and Internet technologies, in particular, have had a tremendous impact on all aspects of business over the last several years. One area of continued concern is the protection of intellectual properties within the boundaries of these computer-mediated environments, most notably copyrights. While the ability to share copyrighted information has always existed at the most basic levels, the advent of the information age has allowed the sharing of this information to take place in potentially greater quantities and without a loss of quality. As such, copying digital works creates a major threat to industries dealing in the production and distribution of copyrightable creations. The focus of this research is to better understand how consumers’ ethical philosophies and judgements regarding the opportunities to download copyrighted works from the Internet impact assessments of copying behaviour. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006Public policy, Copyright, Intellectual property, Internet, Consumer behaviour,

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“…If we focus on the patent system -and this is indeed where the central issues were to play themselves out, to do with the increasingly important role of invention and innovation in growth -we can pick out a number of major features (Noble, 1977;Khan and Sokoloff, 2001):…”

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“…Firstly, early in the 20 th century, there appeared "a trend towards long-term attachments between highly productive inventors and particular firms" (Khan and Sokoloff, 2001), implying a form of relation quite different from the "standard" market one. This trend continued during the greatest part of the 20 th century.…”

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Intellectual Property Right Regimes, Firms and the Commodification of Knowledge

Coriat¹,

Weinstein²

2009

SSRN Journal

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Abstract:The aim of this paper is to analyse the evolution of the intellectual property regime, and more precisely the patent regime, in the USA, since the 19 th century. To do so, we shall consider intellectual property within the context of general transformations in capitalism, focusing on two main historical phases. Firstly, the period covering the formation and development of "corporate capitalism" dominated by large corporations. And then the new phase, which opened up in the 1980s, marked by the rise to power of finance. From a perspective of institutional complementarities, we seek to show how the characteristics and implications of IPR regimes can only be understood in relation to transformations in the main institutional forms of capitalism: forms of the firm, the status of labour (the "wage-labour nexus"), and market forms.

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History Lessons: The Early Development of Intellectual Property Institutions in the United States

Abstract: This occasional feature will discuss episodes and events drawn from economic history that have lessons for current topics in policy and research. Responses to this column and suggestions for future columns should be sent to Kenneth Sokoloff,

Cited by 107 publications

References 16 publications

Immigrants' Genes: Genetic Diversity and Economic Development in the United States

Immigrants' Genes: Genetic Diversity and Economic Development in the United States

The effects of consumers’ ethical beliefs on copying behaviour

Intellectual Property Right Regimes, Firms and the Commodification of Knowledge

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