"The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this. You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. This paper provides empirical evidence on how intellectual property (IP) on a given technology affects subsequent innovation. To shed...

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World paints a dark picture of a future society that deifies scientific progress. In Huxley's "Utopia," science controls individual opportunity and, hence, destiny. Heredity shapes the individual's place in society, so that from the moment of conception, a person's...