Tag Archives: Property

Rousseau’s theory of original sin

Posted on November 20, 2025 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

As we saw in a previous post (see here), three passages in Rousseau’s Second Discourse may have resonated with a young Adam Smith. Yesterday, we saw the first of these three fragments; today, we will take a closer look at … Continue reading →

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Open-source patents?

Posted on June 13, 2014 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Elon Musk — co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors — has this to say about Tesla’s proprietary patents: When I started out with my first company, Zip2, I thought patents were a good thing and worked hard to obtain them. And maybe they were good … Continue reading →

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