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The Days Are Over When Technology Can Be Advanced In Laboratories By Individual Scientists Alone. Now You Need An Army Of Lawyers To Negotiate The Hazardous Terrain Of Interlocking Patents. Unless We Find A Solution To The Problem Of Interlocking Patents, The Patent System May Actually Impede The Very Innovation It Was Designed To Encourage.

The Free Market Doesn't Exist. Every Market Has Some Rules And Boundaries That Restrict Freedom Of Choice. A Market Looks Free Only Because We So Unconditionally Accept Its Underlying Restrictions That We Fail To See Them.

Rational Thinking Is An Important Aspect Of Human Nature, But We Have Imagination, We Have Ambition, We Have Irrational Fear, We Are Swayed By Other People, We Get Indoctrinated And We Get Influenced By Advertising.

Self-interest, To Be Sure, Is One Of The Most Important, But We Have Many Other Motives - Honesty, Self-respect, Altruism, Love, Sympathy, Faith, Sense Of Duty, Solidarity, Loyalty, Public-spiritedness, Patriotism, And So On - That Are Sometimes Even More Important Than Self-seeking As The Driver Of Our Behaviors.

To Paraphrase Winston Churchill, Capitalism Is The Worst Economic System Except For All The Other Forms.