Landes and Posner, The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Law
This monograph seeks to explain the expansion of intellectual property law over the last half century, focusing in particular on the rapid growth that began with the 1976 Copyright Act. In so doing, it explores a fundamental, unresolved issue in the theory of regulation: why some kinds of regulation have increased dramatically over this period while others have virtually disappeared.
Published by the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, June 2004.
