U.S. Supreme Court Curbs Excessive Design Patent Damages

Re:U.S. Supreme Court Curbs Excessive Design Patent Damages by runako on Thursday December 08, 2016 @12:52PM (#13132325)

I have read that the modern usage of the word "economics" is a replacement for the older term "political economy." It seems our ancestors were more wordy but also more accurate.

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Re:U.S. Supreme Court Curbs Excessive Design Patent Damages by dredmorbius on Friday December 09, 2016 @08:15AM (#13138549)

Both were originally "moral philosophy". "Political economy" mostly split into "economics" and "political science" in the 1880s, though the odd department of political economy can still be found.

One of Adam Smith's shortest sentences in Wealth of Nations is "Wealth, as Mr Hobbes says, is power." It's all about power and its distribution.

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Re:U.S. Supreme Court Curbs Excessive Design Patent Damages by hkt on Thursday December 08, 2016 @06:50PM (#13135464)

The term isn't dead: at the very least, British social democrats still use it.

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