The boom in intellectual property has been good for the Patent Office; patents are its principal source of income.
Legal scholars say the boom in intellectual property lawsuits began with the advent of television, which added new lives to popular stories and characters.
Previously, many personal injury litigation cases were brought in east Texas but a reform of Texas tort law in 2003 put an end to that, leading to the boom in intellectual property (IP) litigation – and the slogan bandied about by lawyers: "From PI to IP".
In fact, the baby-boom intellectuals have never had it so good.
Like many Chinese intellectuals during the recent economic boom, Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao, a husband-and-wife team of writers, mostly ignored their ancestral homes in the countryside.
But Mundell was also the intellectual architect of the great economic boom that America has enjoyed, with only one brief interruption, since 1982.
On the contrary, it is home to nearly unparalleled financial, intellectual, and network capital, and through both Boom and Bust, it has remained a catalyst for and breeding ground of some of the world's most innovative technologies.
They provided the intellectual framework and drew up the policies that helped caused the boom – and the bust.
The conservative economist Thomas Sowell, who spent two weeks on the list last June with "The Housing Boom and Bust," is at No. 13 with "Intellectuals and Society" (possible subtitle: "Not a Pretty Picture").
Indeed, the old coach has left us a rich intellectual legacy, a summa we might call Maddenism, smuggled in between whaps, booms and doinks.
