Free trade liberals had an anti-patent activist tradition in the nineteenth century

Evidence

Machlup found forebears for his own skepticism towards arguments about the need for patents related to natural law ideas of property as well as incentivizing invention and disclosure. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 182

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Early MPS neoliberals favored weaker patent rights over stronger ones — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 183

Broader Connections

• Early MPS neoliberals favored weaker patent rights over stronger ones #corroborates (0.80) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 183