Sherry S. Marcellin

The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Patents

US Sectional Interests and the African Group at the WTO

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Produktbeschreibung

A fresh, multidisciplinary and exciting look at the making and remaking of pharmaceutical patents at the GAT/WTO, utilizing a Coxian political economy of continuity and change in the global political economy (GPE). Marcellin addresses the role of the transnational drug industry in the making of the patent provisions in the original TRIPS Agreement, and consequently the role of the African Group at the WTO in the remaking of patent provisions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781138252004
• ISBN-10: 113825200X
• Artikelnr.: 57040569

Autorenporträt

Sherry S. Marcellin, London School of Economics, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Explaining 'who gets what' in international trade decision-making
North/South controversies in the TRIPS negotiations: between hegemony and domination?
Consensus formation in the TRIPS negotiations: agendas, agents and turning points
Legitimacy and the TRIPS agreement: globalised law as 'consent without consent'
The post-TRIPS context and the intensification of a contested terrain: the rise of the African Group (AG) at the WTO?
Conclusion
List of interviewees
References
Index.