Important recent work by Michele Boldrin & David Levine, authors of Against Intellectual Monopoly, about why, contrary to arguments given by pro-patent shills and the pharmaceutical industry and its lobbyists, patents are actually not necessary in the pharmaceutical industry and in the production of vaccines.
- Michele Boldrin, David Levine & Flavio Toxvaerd, “Should patents on Covid-19 vaccines be waived?“, Economics Observatory (May 14, 2021), and
- Boldrin & Levine, “Reforming Patent Law: The Case of Covid-19,” Cato Journal (Fall 2021)
- See also “How to think about vaccines and patents in a pandemic,” The Economist (April 24, 2021)
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