Monsanto and Intellectual Property in South America

F. Filomeno (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

187 Seiten

2014
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-35668-0 (ISBN)

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Intellectual property is one of the most valuable forms of property in the modern world. From the perspective of companies producing knowledge-intensive goods, it encourages technological innovations for the benefit of humanity. For consumers of technology, it can be seen as a restriction on access to knowledge that inflates corporate rents. When genetic material crucial for human life is isolated from the commons, engineered and turned into private intellectual property, dissent is likely to emerge. Felipe Filomeno uses the case of Monsanto in South American soybean agriculture to theorize about the emergence and change of intellectual property regimes. Based on official documents, interviews, journalistic material, and academic literature, the study shows not only the relations of competition, coercion, and alliances that lie behind the post-1980 global upward ratchet of intellectual property protection but also the strategies that have the potential to reverse it.

Felipe Amin Filomeno is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. In 2013, he won the best Ph.D. dissertation prize of the Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association.

1. Introduction 2. Argentina: The Old Developmental Model 3. Brazil: The Neodevelopmental Model 4. Paraguay: The Dependent Model 5. Conclusion: Seeds of the Future

Reihe/Serie	International Political Economy Series
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 187 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medienrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-137-35668-5 / 1137356685
ISBN-13	978-1-137-35668-0 / 9781137356680
Zustand	Neuware