Friday, March 16, 2012

An Economic Review of The Patent System By Fritz Machlup

Status: Near Finalization (v.999)

The original PDF had many scanning artifacts, and was bloated (24.8 MB). My PDF version has a (nearly perfect) OCR, and the images were manually cleaned. Here are some comparison shots:

Page 33:
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Page 78:
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My PDF also comes in at 5.15 MB.

Fix Notes: PDF Page (Actual Page):


page 30 (25):
but the absence of references to the heated controvery of 1850-73 seems to indicate that they were not familiar with this literature
  • Changed to "controversy"

EPUB: https://mega.co.nz/#!XV4kiCrZ!JcQf6DCjH7hKJWIxVjijgFjTXrlChGQ9I6axyAwlf0A

PDF: Dead Link (If you are interested, please leave a comment)