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Against Intellectual Monopoly
Michele Boldrin,David K. Levine +1 more
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The good, the bad, and the ugly of the pharmaceutical industry as mentioned in this paper : The bad, the good and the ugliness of pharmaceutical industry is discussed in detail in Section 2.1.Abstract:
1. Introduction 2. Creation under consumption 3. Innovation under competition 4. The evil of intellectual monopoly 5. The devil in Disney 6. How competition works 7. Defenses of intellectual monopoly 8. Does intellectual monopoly increase innovation? 9. The pharmaceutical industry 10. The bad, the good, and the ugly.read more
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