by Cornell University Library Patents and Ethics in the Pharmaceutical Industry Abstract This paper is concerned with the impacts of strict patents in the pharmaceutical industry, focusing on the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) Agreement. It discusses the historical and current policy context, to better understand how strict patents affect the [...]

Theories of Development: Concepts and Applications (6th Edition) For undergraduate/graduate courses in  Theories of Development, Child Development, and Lifespan Development.   The result of extensive scholarship and consultation with leading scholars, this text introduces students to twenty-four theorists and compares and contrasts their theories on how we develop as individuals. Emphasizing the theories that build [...]

by Wissensbilanz Knowledge Based Economy   Abstract:   For the last two hundred years, neo-classical economics has recognised only two factors of production: labour and capital. This is now changing. Information and knowledge are replacing capital and energy as the primary wealth-creating assets, just as the latter two replaced land and labor 200 years ago. [...]

by My DrEaM SHOTZz The Contribution of the Euro-dollar Market to the Modern Financial World The Euro-dollar market* had caused many changes to the modern financial world in which, the open competitive effect of the international money market caused the liberalization by almost all industrialized countries of domestic money and banking markets. The market acted [...]