UID:
almafu_9960118926702883
Format:
1 online resource (xviii, 235 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-316-83241-4
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1-316-83598-7
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1-316-82308-3
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Apr 2018).
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Global Wealth and the Rise of Intellectual Property -- 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: Firms, Basic Human Needs, and Technology -- 4 The Pivot to Basic Human Needs -- 5 The Rise of Supranational Regulation of Global Firms -- 6 Access to Medicines and Vaccines -- Antiretroviral Medications -- Cancer and Heart Disease Medications -- Vaccines -- 7 Food and Agriculture -- 8 Consumer Products -- Infant Formula -- Tobacco -- 9 Educational and Scientific Printed Works -- Part III International Intellectual Property Shelters: Redistributing Wealth and Regulating Oligopolies -- 10 Medicines and Vaccines -- The Medical Research and Innovation Treaty -- The Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework -- 11 Biological and Plant Genetic Resources for Agriculture -- The Convention on Biological Diversity -- The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (International Seed Treaty) -- The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization -- 12 Food and Tobacco Trademarks -- The International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes -- The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control -- 13 Limiting Copyright -- The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities.
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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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-17780-4
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316823088
