Intellectual Property And The New International Economic Order: Oligopoly, Regulation, And Wealth Redistribution In The Global Knowledge Economy

✍ Scribed by Sam F. Halabi

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 255
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

In economic sectors crucial to human welfare – agriculture, education, and medicine – a small number of firms control global markets, primarily by enforcing intellectual property (IP) rights incorporated into trade agreements made in the 1980s onward. Such rights include patents on seeds and medicines, copyrights for educational texts, and trademarks in consumer products. According to conventional wisdom, these agreements likewise ended hopes for a 'New International Economic Order,' under which wealth would be redistributed from rich countries to poor. Sam F. Halabi turns this conventional wisdom on its head by demonstrating that the New International Economic Order never faded, but rather was redirected by other treaties, formed outside the nominally economic sphere, that protected poor countries' interests in education, health, and nutrition and resulted in redistribution and regulation. This illuminating work should be read by anyone seeking a nuanced view of how IP is shaping the global knowledge economy.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I - Movements in Global Wealth Creation and Redistribution
1 - Economic Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries after Decolonization
2 - The Expansion of International Intellectual Property Protection
3 - The Merger between International Intellectual Property, Investment, and Trade Law
Part II - Rethinking Wealth
4 - The Pivot to Basic Human Needs
5 - The Rise of Supranational Regulation of Global Firms
6 - Access to Medicines and Vaccines
7 - Food and Agriculture
8 - Consumer Products
9 - Educational and Scientific Printed Works
Part III - International Intellectual Property Shelter
10 - Medicines and Vaccines
11 - Biological and Plant Genetic Resources for Agriculture
12 - Food and Tobacco Trademark
13 - Limiting Copyright
Part IV - International Intellectual Property Shelters, Wealth Redistribution, and the Supranational Regulation of Global Firms
14 - International Intellectual Property Shelters as Mechanisms of Redistribution
15 - International Intellectual Property Shelters and Supranational Regulation
Conclusion
Index

✦ Subjects

Intellectual Property; Intellectual Property: Economic Aspects; Foreign Trade Regulation; International Cconomic Relations

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