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Intellectual Property: The Fuel of Interest to the Fire of American Genius

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, February 09 2017

What competitive advantage begat American exceptionalism? How, despite such a brief lifespan, did America become and remain to this day the most inventive, influential, prosperous, creative nation in human history? Some rationalize our success as a happenstance of geography and abundance of natural resources. But that rationalization can't explain why nations like Russia or Brazil with even greater natural resources don't begin to approximate our record of ingenuity and prosperity. Nor does it explain why nations like Japan with comparatively meager natural resources…

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