Product Description: The patent has emerged as a dominant force in 21st century economic policy. This book examines the impact of the BRICS and other emerging economies on the global patent framework and charts the phenomenal rise in the number of patents in some of these countries...read more

Based on extensive interviews with key players, a study reveals how the 'knowledge economy' is making slaves of everyone except for a few multinational companies and argues that in the globalized information society, the rich have found new ways to rob the poor, using intellectual property rules. Reprint.

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Product Description: How has the regulation of business shifted from national to global institutions? What are the mechanisms of globalization? Who are the key actors? What of democratic sovereignty? In which cases has globalization been successfully resisted? These questions are confronted across an amazing sweep of the critical areas of business regulation--from contract, intellectual property and corporations law, to trade, telecommunications, labor standards, drugs, food, transport and environment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this collection of papers, contributors from a number of countries examine the issue of intellectual property and a number of different approaches to it. Part of the International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory series. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Are intellectual property rights like other property rights? More and more of the world’s knowledge and information is under the control of intellectual property owners. What are the justifications for this? What are the implications for power and for justice of allowing this property form to range across social life? Can we look to traditional property theory to supply the answers or do we need a new approach? Intellectual property rights relate to abstract objects - objects like algorithms and DNA sequences...read more