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Volume 96 - Summer 2022

Contents

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Review Essay

  • Intellectual Property and National Economies

  • Lee Vinsel
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    22 April 2022, pp. 195-200

  • While a few nations had intellectual property (IP) laws before 1800, many more created them in the nineteenth century, and even more than that waited until well into the twentieth century. When scholars examine different national and international IP regimes, they find not only controversy and apparently intractable debate about the laws’ merits but also seemingly irreducible variety. Two recent books—the edited volume Patent Cultures: Diversity and Harmonization in Historical Perspective put together by Graeme Gooday and Steven Wilf and Inventing Ideas: Patents, Prizes, and the Knowledge Economy by B. Zorina Khan—examine the global diversity of IP systems and their impacts on national economies.

Book Review

Review Essay

  • Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy

  • Robert Fredona
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    29 July 2022, pp. 433-439

  • “At the expense of anything?” rejoined Lady Carbury with energy. “One cannot measure such men by the ordinary rule.”

    —Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now (1875)

    Facile criticisms of Adam Tooze's new book, Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy, present themselves at once. It suffers by comparison to Tooze's masterpiece, The Wages of Destruction (2006)—easily one of the best historical works of the last two decades, a huge and original take on the economy of Nazi Germany, its geopolitics and political economy alike forged in reaction to the example of Fordist America, its war aims destined to fail because of an increasing deficit in the “balance of resources” vis-à-vis the Allies.

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