Economics is often used in literary studies, but rarely free market economics. Austrian economics, with its emphasis on subjective value (Menger), human action (Mises), spontaneous order and knowledge (Hayek), and entrepreneurship (Kirzner), seems a particularly fruitful source of ideas for literary studies.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
An Experiment in Intellectual Property
One of the things the Mises Institute is big on is opposing intellectual property. In that spirit, I have decided to try something, which is to offer one of my plays, a satire called Hef's Bunnies for anyone who wants to produce it. The entire text is on my blog Interdisciplinary World. Producers may feel free to pay me a commission, or not, as I discuss there. Please, feel free to spread the word. Only if it gets produced will this experiment work, after all.
I am not persuaded that you are doing what you think you are doing:
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But exercising your intellectual property rights by making donations is still nice.
Troy, what steps are you taking to make this happen? I might throw a screenplay up for grabs.
ReplyDeleteRight now I just posted it on my blog. I am certainly up for ideas on how to spread the word.
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