Steven Levitt over at Freakonomics posted an interesting vignette from the ongoing internet freedom (SOPA) debate but that's not why I'm writing about it. Levitt's take on property rights and how they factor in:
I almost always believe in free markets as the solution to problems, but this one is tricky. There are not a whole lot of things that I think governments are particularly good at doing, but protecting property rights is at or near the top of that list.This reminded me of Niall Ferguson's TED talk, The 6 Killer Aps of Prosperity: competition, the Scientific Revolution, property rights, modern medicine, the consumer society, and "the work ethic".
Do you think our legislators will refer to the lessons of human history when deciding the future of internet history?
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