Reihan Salam offers some very good thoughts on self-employment via Etsy and Kickstarter as a possible driver of economic recovery, in which he kindly quotes yours truly on technologies of control and resistance. What follows are just a few additional ideas on self-employment prompted by his post. In response to Reihan, Justin Wolfers tweets that, [...]

Tags: employment, Etsy, Kickstarter, Salam, Wolfers, ZMP hypothesis
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There are various laws and norms that protect intellectual property. Urban Outfitters seemed to have violated one of those norms last week when it was revealed that some of its jewelry is very similar to that of an independent designer’s on Etsy. It turns out that it’s a very common, completely unoriginal design, much ado [...]

Tags: Etsy, fashion, Heller, intellectual property, signaling, tragedy of the anticommons, Urban Outfitters
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