Intellectual Property Rights and Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of the TRIPS Agreement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Intellectual Property Rights and Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of the TRIPS Agreement write by Donald G. Richards. This book was released on 2020-07-24. Intellectual Property Rights and Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of the TRIPS Agreement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is an examination of the origins and impact of the agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) negotiated during the Uruguay Round of GATT talks. The principal theme is that the TRIPS agreement is not in the best interests of the poorer countries, and that its imposition on them by the richer countries has more to do with the exercise of political and economic power than with the positive economic benefits the agreement's supporters claim it can deliver. To support this assertion the book critically examines the economic evidence regarding the impact of intellectual property rights on such important variables as export performance, foreign investment, and economic growth. The author provides a political economic analysis of why the poorer countries acceded to the TRIPS agreement, illustrated with case studies of two important industries where the struggle over intellectual property is especially strong: pharmaceutical and agricultural biotechnology sectors. Designed for use in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in international political economy and international relations theory, the book offer a radical view of the process of globalization.
Intellectual Property Rights in the Global Economy
Intellectual Property Rights in the Global Economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Intellectual Property Rights in the Global Economy write by Keith Eugene Maskus. This book was released on 2000. Intellectual Property Rights in the Global Economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Cultural Production of Intellectual Property Rights
The Cultural Production of Intellectual Property Rights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cultural Production of Intellectual Property Rights write by Sean K. Johnson Andrews. This book was released on 2009. The Cultural Production of Intellectual Property Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The argument of this dissertation is that the debate over intellectual property rights (IPR) exposes the underlying reified culture of property that pervades western capitalist societies. This culture rests on the Natural Law ideology of Locke and his defense of the liberal state. In large part the participants in the debate around IPR have presumed that the stakes are only over the way this reified culture is extended to "intangible" products. I contend that it is truly over a longstanding process of commodification, primitive accumulation, and the division of labor into mental and manual capacities which are all different dimensions of this "reified culture of property." These are the indispensable characteristics of the "purely economic" state that is necessary to produce subjects adhering to the classic ideal of Liberal culture. IPR appears a conjunctural concern, in relation to digitization and globalization, but these are just catalysts which produce points of conflict over a more fundamental theory of value and property. Therefore the expansion of the scope and scale of IPR is less about IPR than about the continued health of global capitalism and the reified culture of property itself. (p. VI).
Capitalism, Power and Innovation
Capitalism, Power and Innovation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Capitalism, Power and Innovation write by Cecilia Rikap. This book was released on 2021-03-29. Capitalism, Power and Innovation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In contemporary global capitalism, the most powerful corporations are innovation or intellectual monopolies. The book’s unique perspective focuses on how private ownership and control of knowledge and data have become a major source of rent and power. The author explains how at the one pole, these corporations concentrate income, property and power in the United States, China, and in a handful of intellectual monopolies, particularly from digital and pharmaceutical industries, while at the other pole developing countries are left further behind. The book includes detailed empirical mappings of how intellectual monopolies develop and transform knowledge from universities and open-source collaborations into intangible assets. The result is a strategy that combines undermining the commons through privatization with harvesting from the same commons. The book ends with provoking reflections to tilt the scale against intellectual monopoly capitalism and arguing that desired changes require democratic mobilization of workers and citizens at large. This book represents one of the first attempts to capture the contours of an emerging new era where old perspectives lead us astray, and the old policy toolbox is hopelessly inadequate. This is true for the idea that the best, or only, way to promote innovation is to transform knowledge into private property. It is also true for anti-trust policies focusing exclusively on consumer prices. The formation of global infrastructures that lead to natural monopolies calls for public rather than private ownership. Scholars and professionals from the social sciences and humanities (in particular economics, sociology, political science, geography, educational science and science and technology studies) will enjoy a clear and all-embracing depiction of innovation dynamics in contemporary capitalism, with a particular focus on asymmetries between actors, regions and topics. In fact, its topical issue broadens the book’s scope to those curious about how innovation networks shape our world.
Private Power, Public Law
Private Power, Public Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Private Power, Public Law write by Susan K. Sell. This book was released on 2003. Private Power, Public Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Analysis of the power of multinational corporations in moulding international law on intellectual property rights.
