Oligopoly, Regulation, and Wealth Redistribution in the Global Knowledge Economy
by
Sam F. Halabi
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
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,...