https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-constraining-role-of-ip-and-patents-2-case-study-on-why-germany-overtook-england-in-the-19th-century/2010/09/08 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:40:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-constraining-role-of-ip-and-patents-2-case-study-on-why-germany-overtook-england-in-the-19th-century/2010/09/08/comment-page-1#comment-437992 Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:40:26 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=10446#comment-437992 One can essentially define wealth as knowledge, with its origin in evolutionary processes. This is the thesis of Eric Beinhocker’s The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics. Of course, intellectual property hinders the free sharing and proliferation of knowledge and thus reduces wealth.

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