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Carte Knowledge as Commons: Toward Inclusive Science and Technology Prabir Purkayastha

Knowledge as Commons: Toward Inclusive Science and Technology

Autor: Prabir Purkayastha
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Carte broșată
Editura: Monthly Review Press
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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A powerful contribution to the debate on intellectual propertyKnowledge as Commons traces the histor...

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Autor
Prabir Purkayastha
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Carte broșată
Publicat
2024
Pagini
258
EAN
9781685900700
ISBN
1685900704
Enbook ID
45737699
Editura
Monthly Review Press
Greutate
346

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A powerful contribution to the debate on intellectual property

Knowledge as Commons traces the historical path towards the privatization of knowledge, situating science, technology and the emergence of modern nations in a larger historical framework. Author Prabir Purkayastha asks: Do the needs of society drive science and technology? Or do developments in science and technology provide the motor force of history? Has this relationship changed over time? Purkayastha shows us that, with profit as its sole aim, capital claims to own human knowledge and its products, fencing them in with patents and intellectual property rights. Neoliberal institutions and policy diktats from the West have installed a global system in which knowledge, that limitless resource, is made artificially scarce-while limited resources such as water and clean air are treated as though they were infinite.

Arguing that rapid technological change, from pharmaceuticals to electronics, should be an opportunity to deliver quicker cures, affordable access, and global cooperation in the production of knowledge, Purkayastha examines the consequences of this privatization for universities, healthcare, distributive justice, the domestic politics of developing countries, and their prospects vis-à-vis the West.

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