Albedo

by Andrew Gelman on July 13, 2011 · 3 comments

in IT and politics

Kal Raustiala and Chris Sprigman posted an item on the Freakonomics blog: How “Patent Trolling” Taxes Innovation.

Perhaps they could get a reply from Nathan Myhrvold—he’s posted on the blog once already.

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Eric July 13, 2011 at 5:01 pm

I thought you said that was your last albedo post.

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Andrew Gelman July 13, 2011 at 5:05 pm

Ouch!

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Robert July 18, 2011 at 12:36 am

Perhaps you’ll be interested in next week’s “This American Life”. It appears to be about patents and “a controversial billionaire physicist in Seattle, a 40 pound cookbook, and a war waging right now, all across the software and tech industries.”

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/patent-show

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