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Purkayastha, Prabir

 
9781685900700: Knowledge as Commons: Toward Inclusive Science and Technology
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ISBN 10: 1685900704 ISBN 13: 9781685900700
Editorial: Monthly Review Press,U.S., 2024

Sinopsis

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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Acerca del autor

Prabir Purkayastha is an engineer in the power, telecom, and software sectors, a founding member of the Delhi Science Forum and editor of Newsclick.in. A scientist-activist, he is co-author, with Vijay Prashad, of Enron Blowout: Corporate Capitalism and Theft of the Global Commons (LeftWord 2002). As of late 2023, the 74-year-old was being held in New Delhi's Tihar Prison Complex under the anti-terror Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

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Editorial
Monthly Review Press,U.S.
Año de publicación
2024
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1685900704
ISBN 13 
9781685900700
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
258
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