Make Them Pay Their Fair Share of Unearned Monopoly Economic Rent
[quote]Either people in the U.S. will go to the cheap drugs or the cheap drugs will come here.[/quote] Exactly. Make them all pay the full retail price. As the Big Pharma Sock Puppet Media Machine...
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I think it's very bizarre that Krugman hasn't heard of, or at least feigns ignorance of, this analysis of TPP. The leaked chapter makes it very clear that TPP has little to do with trade, and we have...
View Articleplay by the rules.....
Until we change copyright and patent laws within the U.S., it seems reasonable that countries for which we grant access to our markets play by our rules. This is not to say they do a good job of...
View ArticleKrugman blog comments are lining up all against that post
I just read the first 20 comments or so to Krugman's post, and all would side with Dean. Never saw Krugman get scolded so much. I guess that's what happens when you recall you were an expert on trade,...
View ArticleSo glad you wrote this...
First thing I did after reading Krugman's post was wonder how long it would take for Dean to respond. Perfect response. Well done. - AJ
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http://tpplist.wordpress.com/issue/legal-analysis-full-list/ For a good list of critiques of the IP chapter, including ours from CPATH - Ellen Shaffer
View ArticleA little tepid
Dean has been one of the important voices on TPP. But I must say that this post on Krugman's column is disappointing. Is he so eager to be in K's good graces at all costs. If any of the Washington Post...
View ArticleBizarre. ...
I think commenter Joe T. above has it right on this. Krugman is simply so used to being the trade expert, that he didn't think he needed to do his homework on this. PK's comment is simply bizarre when...
View ArticleThe very fact that it's secret...
If Paul Krugman was thinking outside the narrow confines of the numbers of his discipline he would recognize that the very fact that the TPP is a secret pact is a huge danger signal. If it is as benign...
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I think Krugman has long been an advocate of "free" trade. He seems to look at overall "macro" aspects as affecting GDP, and not at how disadvantageous international trade has been to US workers, or at...
View ArticleKrugman outsourced
the analysis of the other consequences of TPP to the rest of the liberal blogosphere. With the ostensible purpose refuted, it opened the space for alternative explanations. - Patrick
View Articleodd argument
Baker's two critiques of the TPP are on pharmaceutical patents, which would benefit the US, and bizarrely, fracking. There's no indication that there'll be anything about fracking in the TPP (which is...
View Article3 stars out of 4 for "Paul Krugman and TPP"
Dr. Baker makes good points but certainly seems to be pulling his punches. See "Is Krugman Running on Brand Fumes? (TransPacific Partnership Edition)," by Yves Smith, at...
View ArticleChapter QQ
My Al Jazeera column examined this, noting high up that the one public text is chapter QQ and is 30,000 words long. The point is that "free" trade is really very managed trade and the negotiators do...
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I've noticed before that Prof. Krugman hesitates to comment "outside of his expertise", but he could have at least mentioned that others have decried the regularity effects that are being negotiated...
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Dean's counterfactuals on drugs are totally ridiculous. Thinking that you can just do away with the patent system and get 10,000 drugs for 200 bucks is silly. What gives him the right to make such a...
View ArticlePatrick is right
And Dean was gentle on Krugman for that very reason. As Patrick says, PK's note asserts that the deal is basically pointless, which opens the field for people like Dean. - Eric
View ArticleTPP & Medical Patents - Australian Perspective
Please keep writing about this, and please get others to write about it too. From the little nuggets i have been able to pick up the TPP looks like an all out assault on Australia's incredibly...
View ArticleNot Forgiving Krugman On This
I'm sorry, but there is simply no way in hell Krugman isn't aware of the disastrous aspects of the TPP--- just the aspects that HAVE been made public. His column seriously undermines my respect for him...
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