How Businesses Succeed Thanks to Gov't

[J.T]

What if, when Alexander Graham Bell (http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Alexander+Graham+Bell) invented the telephone, he couldn’t get a patent from the United States (http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/United+States) government to protect his idea? Or for that matter, if there had been no laws to protect private property and no law enforcement, Bell might have had to sit up all night with a gun guarding his invention

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http://www.alternet.org/economy/151710/american_businesses_don%27t_succeed_in_spite_of_go vernment_--_they_succeed_because_of_it

[Kathianne]

Yeah, Captain Obvious: Article 1 Section 8 of US Constitution:


...To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;...

[fj1200]

http://www.alternet.org/economy/151710/american_businesses_don't_succeed_in_spite_of_gove rnment_--_they_succeed_because_of_it

You'd think you would like to stop being wrong.


A free-market (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market) is a market (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market) in which economic intervention (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_intervention) and regulation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation) by the state (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_(polity)) is limited to tax collection, and enforcement of private ownership and contracts.

Who's advocating anarchy?