Demographic Responses to Economic Adjustment in Latin America (International Studies in Demography)

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The papers in this volume address the influence of economic fluctuations upon mortality, fertility, and labor markets in the Latin America of the 1980s. Contributors attempt to distinguish short-term effects from long-term ones. Broader policy-related and institutional factors affecting the
continent as a whole are examined alongside the demographic consequences of economic changes in individual countries.

DEMOGRAPHIC RESPONSES TO ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT IN LATIN AMERICA (INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN DEMOGRAPHY SERIES)

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DEMOGRAPHIC RESPONSES TO ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT IN LATIN AMERICA (INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN DEMOGRAPHY SERIES)
Mason and Bravo (ed.) Tapinos
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Demographic Responses to Economic Adjustment in Latin America (International Studies in Demography)
Georges; Mason, Andrew; Bravo, Jorge Tapinos
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Understanding strategic transportation buyer-seller relationships from an organizational learning perspective: a grounded theory approach.: An article from: Transportation Journal
Madhav Pappu , and Ray A. Mundy
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Title: Understanding strategic transportation buyer-seller relationships from an organizational learning perspective: a grounded theory approach.
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Publication: Transportation Journal (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2002
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Hard tomatoes, hard times;: A report of the Agribusiness Accountability Project on the failure of America's land grant college complex
Jim Hightower
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Fact-based, Original, Brilliant!.......2003-10-09

If you're looking for facts, and some real, honest analysis of the way your money is spent in the land-grant university systems, here's the book for you. Although the book is relatively old, the basic orientation hasn't really changed much at the land-grant schools. In The Politics of Agricultural Research, Don Hadwiger described Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times as an "exposé [that] helped bring about a reappraisal of the marvelous but flawed product of agricultural research."

As Hightower puts it: "Tax dollars buy new tinker toys for agribusiness, misery for migrants, death for rural America and more taxes for urban America. All in the name of efficiency" (p.110). The future, now former, Texas Agriculture Commissioner lays it all out, with facts and figures.

As Ronald Reagan's farewell address warned, beware of the "iron triangles," a phrase coined by J. Leiper Freeman. In fact, this is a great book to read after reading the seminal work by J. Leiper Freeman's The Political Process (1955).

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Hard tomatoes, hard times;: A report of the Agribusiness Accountability Project on the failure of America's land grant college complex
Jim Hightower
Manufacturer: Schenkman Pub. Co
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Excellent Business Resource.......2004-01-20

I come from an art background, and I'm always a little worried about becoming the proverbial, "starving artist". This book provided me with a wealth of knowledge to get started on the right foot. I'm writing up my first year's business plan, creating a portfolio, and will begin marketing soon. This book is an excellent resource for anyone getting started.

An Essential "Business Tool" to own!.......2003-12-29

This was a Christmas gift to my son, our family handyman who loves to dabble in wordworking. Family and friends have encouraged him to quit his job as an Engineer and do this full-time. He has accumulated an impressive collection of carpentry tools and books on "How to build....." (You name it and he has a book on how to build it.) Of all his books, this is the only one that provided him with a thorough insight of the business aspect of woodworking. He said this book is the only one that gave him the proper "business tools" to decide whether or not to make a career change. He hasn't made a career change yet, but reading this book has helped him understand the industry a lot better and what he will have to do to turn his hobby into a viable business to support his family.

Perfect source to learn all aspects of going professional........1999-03-31

I found this book very informative with many professional examples. It gave me an insight into all the necessary steps to start my own woodworking business. Well worth the money!

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To understand B2B electronic commerce in its proper perspective, managers and executives need the kind of bird's-eye view that business experts Matthew Friedman and Marlene Blanshay provide in Understanding B2B. Friedman and Blanshay answer key questions without overwhelming readers with technical information, and share an inside look at electronic B2B from some of the world's top analysts-from solution providers to academic strategists.

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Gain a solid understanding of B2B commerce.......2001-12-10

Understanding B2B is a very useful book. Even after the time of the great ecommerce collapse of 2000 and the current economic conditions business will be conducted more and more over the Internet. In fact many companies are looking at the abilities of the Internet to improve their efficiency and control cost during these tough times.

Understanding B2B starts with an extremely useful primer on the roots on electronic commerce. This is useful because as Understanding B2B suggests there are huge investments in EDI (Electronic Document Interchange) standards. Large companies and financial instructions have been using EDI for years. EDI will continue to grow into the near future due to the large investment that corporations have made and the momentum that is creates. UnderStanding B2B also looks at the supply chain and logistics that have made ecommerce so important to businesses. The book aslo offers a practical look at some of the landscape surrounding ecommerce such as out sourcing, security, ecommerce and the law.

The book also looks into the future to see where ecommerce is heading. The future is heavily based on the standards that are developing around XML. The books points out that the web craze of the late 90's was really a user visiting a site and doing transactions on that site. This is person to application (P2A). XML is enabling application to application (A2A) that will allow automation of supply chains and logistics to middle market companies (rather then Global 1000 companies and their biggest suppliers). If you are in a middle market company ecommerce and XML are coming. This book will help you plan, prepare and succeed with your ecommerce initiatives.

A good choice for e-commerce idiot.......2001-10-22

Understanding B2B is really good for you if you know nothing about e-commerce. This book brings you to walk through the history of b2b e-commerce, the situation now and the future expectation. After reading the whole book, I have a thorough understanding of how to set-up a b2b e-commerce company and what aspects I should pay extra attention to. I especially love the technical issues included in the book to explain how e-commerce can actually be implemented. But if you know nothing about computer either, be prepared to find some information system books for reference as there are a lot of jargons (e.g. XML) in the book. Besides, I think the real-life b2b example is not adequate enough, it would be perfect if Matthew and Marlene can cite two to three examples in each chapter.

Not concise enough - too few examples.......2001-09-26

This book was a disappointment. I did enjoy the "resources" part at the end, however found "Understanding B2B" superficial and generalist. It does treat a number of subjects in the area, most of them however too much from a historical perspective, and without ever reaching satisfying substance.

The book has few examples and up-to-date information. If you're in a hurry looking to catch-up with the B2B world, if you would like to understand how it works, where it's heading in your industry, I doubt that this work will satisfy you.

I recommend E-markets by Dirk Schneider and Gerd Schnetkamp (Gabler Verlag).

How electronic connection is revolutionizing business.......2001-08-11

Matthew Friedman & Marlene Blanshay's Understanding B2B provide an examination of e-commerce with an eye to understanding how its affecting business-to-business relationships. Interviews with the world's top analysis are used to explore how an electronic connection is revolutionizing the business environment.

Understanding corporate B2B web sites' effectiveness from North American and European perspective [An article from: Industrial Marketing Management]

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Understanding corporate B2B web sites' effectiveness from North American and European perspective [An article from: Industrial Marketing Management]
G. Chakraborty , P. Srivastava , and D.L. Warren
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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This digital document is a journal article from Industrial Marketing Management, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The globalization of economic activities has led multinational business-to-business (B2B) firms to use their corporate web sites extensively to communicate with their stakeholders. Using a field study of 368 business customers, this paper examines three factors of information that influence corporate web sites' effectiveness in a B2B context and whether these factors differ by web site user's national origin. Results indicate that informativeness of a corporate web site is important for both North American and European visitors. Quality of information is important for European users but not an important aspect for North American users. Usability is the most important factor for North American users but it is not important for European users. Implications of these results are discussed for managerial practices and further research.

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Providing for the consideration of H.R. 333, Bankruptcy Abuse, Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2001 : report (to accompany H. Res. 71) (SuDoc Y 1.1/8:107-4)
U.S. Congressional Budget Office
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Customer service has changed dramatically over the past few decades. New technology has given customer service personnel more options for reaching customers, even as it has given consumers easier access to data and information. CUSTOMER SERVICE IN THE INFORMATION AGE explains how businesses can still provide great customer service with a personal touch--whether it is through e-mail, the telephone, or a company Web site. The tips presented in this book will give organizations concrete suggestions for how to use the technological options available today to elevate their customer service to the next level and build relationships that will result in loyal and satisfied customers.

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I Learned a Great Deal from Reading This Book.......2004-08-30

Since I had worked for over 20 years in customer service related fields I was surprised that I still had a great deal to learn from reading "Customer Service in the Information Age."

The material I found most interesting did concern email messaging. The author clearly outlines the new rules of communication etiquette by email. I discovered that because I also used email on my personal home computer I was becoming far too sloppy and even too personal in my business email communications. Ms. Haberer's book could become the latest "Miss Manners" book on proper customer service etiquette that wins customers online.

Just when I thought I had customer service skills down pat -- along comes "Customer Service in the Information Age." I learned a lot of new skills I need to incorporate to be current and customer friendly by reading this book. I highly recommend this book not only for those entering customer service related occupations but for us "old dogs" as well - you'll be surprised how these tips will give you many cut above the crowd skills for use in today's highly competitive and rapidly changing electronic office.

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After two consecutive elections in which Democratic candidates failed to turn clear economic advantages into electoral victory, a debate is raging over what the Democrats should donow. The narrow, red state-blue state argument between chest-beating populists and soulless centrists offers the answer to neither the country's economic future nor the political future of the Democrats. In The Pro-Growth Progressive, President Clinton's longest-serving national economic advisor, Gene Sperling, argues that the best economic strategy for our nation -- and the best strategy for progressives whether they be Democrat, Republican, or Independent -- is to pursue policies that are both progressive and pro-growth, that promote progressive values of upward mobility, fair starts, and economic dignity as well as embrace markets and innovation.

Sperling describes how both parties offer the American public impoverished choices: Democrats in the-sky-is-falling party too often pretend that the way to promote progressive values and expand the American middle class is to slow the pace of the global economy, stop all outsourcing, and intervene in the market. Republicans of the don't-worry-be-happy party hold fast to the bankrupt vision that the best thing for economic growth is the smallest government possible, and have made the conservative deficit hawks of the 1990s an endangered species. But The Pro-Growth Progressive is neither an all-out assault on the Bush agenda nor a partisan call for Democrats to move further left. Both conservatives and progressives have to accept hard truths about the limitations of their approaches. Drawing on his years of policy experience, Sperling lays out a third way on the issues that are dominating the news and Bush's second term: social security, ownership, globalization, and deficit reduction. He explains the policy alternatives that respect the power of free markets while giving government a role in ensuring that the markets benefit all working families. Focused and timely, The Pro-Growth Progressive offers a realistic vision of free enterprise and economic growth in which government can improve education, reduce poverty, and restore the country to fiscal sanity.

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"After two consecutive elections in which Democratic candidates failed to turn clear economic advantages into electoral victory, a debate is raging over what the Democrats should do now. The narrow, red state-blue state argument between chest-beating populists and soulless centrists offers the answer to neither the country's economic future nor the political future of the Democrats. In The Pro-Growth Progressive, President Clinton's longest-serving national economic advisor, Gene Sperling, argues that the best economic strategy for our nation -- and the best strategy for progressives whether they be Democrat, Republican, or Independent -- is to pursue policies that are both progressive and pro-growth, that promote progressive values of upward mobility, fair starts, and economic dignity as well as embrace markets and innovation. Sperling describes how both parties offer the American public impoverished choices: Democrats in the-sky-is-falling party too often pretend that the way to promote progressive values and expand the American middle class is to slow the pace of the global economy, stop all outsourcing, and intervene in the market. Republicans of the don't-worry-be-happy party hold fast to the bankrupt vision that the best thing for economic growth is the smallest government possible, and have made the conservative deficit hawks of the 1990s an endangered species. But The Pro-Growth Progressive is neither an all-out assault on the Bush agenda nor a partisan call for Democrats to move further left. Both conservatives and progressives have to accept hard truths about the limitations of their approaches. Drawing on his years of policy experience, Sperling lays out a third way on the issues that are dominating the news and Bush's second term: social security, ownership, globalization, and deficit reduction. He explains the policy alternatives that respect the power of free markets while giving government a role in ensuring that the markets benefit all working families. Focused and timely, The Pro-Growth Progressive offers a realistic vision of free enterprise and economic growth in which government can improve education, reduce poverty, and restore the country to fiscal sanity. "

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Givens Review is Superb, This Amplifies.......2006-05-01

Anthony Gibbens' review is superb, and I endorse it and amplify on it. THis book loses one star to two flaws: it begs too many key issues (such as health care, and corporate accountability), and it has no budget and no section on tax reform and increasing government revenue by eliminating fraud, waste, loopholes, and bribery-induced subsidies. That is always my litmus test for serious books about economic policy. One can use the National Budget Simulation, for example, and actually test all these ideas. I, for example, have taken the trouble to identify $550 billion a year in readily available increases in federal tax revenue, and another $300 billion a year in defense and intelligence spending that could be redirected toward soft power and open source intelligence/revitalization of education and national research. It's not real until it's in the budget. This book is platitudinous, worthy of consideration, but not legislatively enactable.

There is no question but that Gene Sperling performed ably for President Clinton EXCEPT that he sacrified the American worker by opening the door for broad indiscriminate lay-offs (see my review of "The Disposable American" by Louis Uchitelle) and he evidently did not see the economic urgency of completely recasting our national educational system (including exile of the stake-holders in the old system to Chinese re-education camps near Mongolia).

On balance, Sperling is now one of those "has experience, listen to him" guys, but he is part of the last gasp of the old guard in the Democratic party, and for my money, a combination of Return of Rubin and Elevation of Matthew Miller would do more good. See my reviews of the books by both these stars.

The author lacks real familiarity with emergent technologies, especially bio-technologies that are CRTICIAL to reducing poverty and illiteracy (see my review of Tofflers "Revolutionary Wealth"), and over-all the book does not represent a comprehensive strategy that reflects an understanding of system dynamics, both internal to the Republic and globally.

Bottom line: worth reading, 30% of this will be useful, somewhat tired. Rubin is more mature, Miller more innovative. Sperling needs to be in the car, but not driving.

A vision for Democratic Party domestic policy.......2006-01-03

The Pro-Growth Progressive is an outline that promotes the agenda of the liberal movement (now self re-named as Progressive). This outline contains both strategy (to link policy ideas to American values of work, self reliance, fairness, equality of opportunites, etc.) and substance.

Both strategy and substance are well organized and mostly balanced. I tend to overlook the occasional rhetoric and one-sidedness, since it was probably inserted to help maintain the interest of the extreme left. In short: this outline is mostly a re-statement of the Clinton adm. domestic policy goals, with some expanded, some re-worked, and with some interesting new ideas presented here.

The main policies suggested here are:

1. Universal 401(k)with $2-to-$1 matching tax credits on the 1st $2,000 invested (and portability, since ALL americans will be offered this program).
2. Universal Pre-school.
3. Universal after-school.
4. Job re-training programs, and education assistance programs.
5. Maintain Social Security in it's present form (fix it by adding a new 3% tax on all income above $200,000).
6. Reject any/all attempts at protectionist trade policy.
7. Maintain and improve the current progressive tax system.
8. Reverse the Bush Tax cuts (at least on the top 2% and on the reduction of estate taxes).
9. Modest increase in Fed. min. wage (to $7.00 - $7.25 in 2006).
10. Expand/increase the Earned Income Tax Credit.
11. Balance the budget (except in times of recession or other national urgency situation).

While most moderates can agree with most of these policies, at least in principle, the author has presented few estimates of actual costs to taxpayers. This summary of costs should have been included in a final chapter - such final chapter was notably absent. The estimated costs are a necessary component of any serious policy discussion and should have been summarized in table form.

Left to my own rough estimates, it seems that the Progressive agenda presented here would cost:
- reverse the Bush tax cuts
AND
- increase taxes BY TWO TIMES the Bush-tax-cut-reversal-amount to balance the budget, to fully fund SS, Medicare, the Universal 401K, etc.

While the policy objectives presented in this outline are noble and honorable, much elaboration is still needed on each item that would further examine the cost of the income transfers and the benefits to America as a whole.

I did enjoy the author's style and his aggressive and fair debate. (BTW, I am a moderate Republican...) His relentless pursuit of a balanced budget is absolutely correct, and the proposal of Universal 401k is also a policy whose time is right. Finally, his analysis that free trade is good for all Americans proves that he is a Democrat that "gets it". It fact, the author thinks like an economist - understands there are ALWAYS trade-offs and secondary effects, and thereby measures his policy goals by their likely overall consequenses to the US economy. (Hence the "pro-growth" objectives.) The major question left TBD is whether the policy results themselves can provide more contribution to a "virtual cycle" or will the costs of poorly re-distributed capital create an excessive drag on the economy (thus hurting those that such policies are designed to help)?

Republicans better get their act together - strategists like Gene Sperling have an agenda that if follwed by Dem candidates - will probably change the political landscape for a very long time. If Democratic candidates were to follow these guidelines, there could be a new majority in congress in 2006 and the WH in 2008.

The Progressive Manifesto: New Ideas for the Centre-Left

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The Progressive Manifesto: New Ideas for the Centre-Left

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Globalization and Progressive Economic Policy

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Interesting but not systemetic
Against the globalisation bogy
Alternatives to Neoliberalism

Globalization and Progressive Economic Policy

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ASIN: 0521643767

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In Globalization and Progressive Economic Policy, thirty-six prominent economists analyze the impact of the emerging global economy on our national sovereignty and standards of living. Does globalization cause inequality? Instability? Unemployment? Environmenal degradation? Or is it an engine of prosperity and wealth for the vast majority of the world's citizens? The authors analyze problems, institutions and possible government responses, and conclude that globalization can be a force for good or ill depending on the degree of regulation that governments and citizens can exercise over its trajectory.

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Interesting but not systemetic.......2001-10-26

I read this book in a graduate class on globalization. The word ¡®progressive¡¯ in the title refers to the perspective of political economy ie, not the one of neoclassical or neo-liberalist. Arguments from economists, in particular political economists on globalization are somewhat hard to see. Authors focused on side effects of globalization. Their perspectives vary but they can be labeled as the view of ¡®race to the bottom¡¯ against optimistic views of neo-liberalist. It¡¯s interesting to see what should be done against hard economic trend, globalization from the perspective of losers not winners. And this book has wide coverage from IMF, World Bank to TNCs, Global financial market, inequality. But I should point out some weakness of the book.
1. They doesn¡¯t offer any explanation on what caused the globalization at all. Globalization is presented as mere background to draw their conclusions. Some Marxist schools explained the process of globalization in terms of the diminishing rate of profit. But this book lacks such logics. I think the purpose of this book, offering alternative policy to speed down the process of globalization, drove authors in that direction.
2. My major is not economics but economic sociology. So I had some difficulties to follow all lines of the economists. But it¡¯s not wholly my fault. I have had no such difficulty with economic journals like The Economist. The explanation of economic phenomena which are mainly macroeconomic one, is not kind to reader. I think authors assumed that this book would be read by expert policy makers not by mundane students.

Against the globalisation bogy.......2001-05-17

In this excellent collection, 37 contributors from around the world study the World Bank, the IMF, the multinational corporations, movements of capital, goods and labour, and the possibilities of national economic renewal. David Felix points out that the financial liberalisation of recent decades has led to slower growth of output, investment and productivity. Mehrene Larudee observes that Mexico, for instance, grew 6% a year with the industrialisation and protectionist policies of 1951-81; when it joined NAFTA, the economy, jobs and wages all shrank. Ha-joon Chang suggests that workers in multinational corporations have a far stronger bargaining position than employers make out. These firms often threaten to move, but rarely do. They have high sunk costs in physical plant, infrastructure, subcontracted production networks and services, skilled workers, local knowledge. Workers can take control of our workplaces, industries and countries. We can impose capital controls and reinvest the wealth we create in productive industry. `Globalisation', like the idea of God, is a ghost to frighten us. Eban Goodstein proves that protecting the environment does not destroy jobs, contrary to employer propaganda. Gregory DeFreitas argues against an open borders policy, while also opposing racial biases in immigration policy. He notes, "emigration represents a subsidy to the receiving country from the nation that trained them, as well as a loss of valuable talents to their homeland."

Arthur McEwan sums up the book's findings: "The neo-liberal regime that is being imposed on the world economy by the Bretton Woods institutions, the US government and other powerful public and private actors is doing a great deal of damage. It is a regime that harms people in all sorts of ways in the name of economic growth, but it does not even do very well at providing economic growth. The reign of neo-liberalism has not come about as some inevitable historical process, but has been actively constructed by the powerful actors that gain from its establishment. Alternatives exist, and the alternatives tend to work better."

Alternatives to Neoliberalism.......1999-04-25

Neoliberalism is bankrupt and corrput! This book offers the most sensible near and medium term policy options and solutions that will benefit both humans and nature until Global Capital wakes up to it's REAL responsibilities. The ecoonomic data and analysis exhibit robustness and considerable explanatory power. The prescriptions are excellent recipes for realistic change...

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GLOBALIZATION AND PROGRESSIVE ECONOMIC POLICY.(Review) (book review): An article from: Journal of Economic Issues

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GLOBALIZATION AND PROGRESSIVE ECONOMIC POLICY.(Review) (book review): An article from: Journal of Economic Issues
David A. Zalewski
Manufacturer: Association for Evolutionary Economics
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ASIN: B0008GZOZC
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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Title: GLOBALIZATION AND PROGRESSIVE ECONOMIC POLICY.(Review) (book review)
Author: David A. Zalewski
Publication: Journal of Economic Issues (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2000
Publisher: Association for Evolutionary Economics
Volume: 34 Issue: 1 Page: 241

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Sequencing Of Institution Building In The Transition Process Of Central And Eastern Europe's Financial Systems
Gertrud Buchenrieder
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There is no denying that biotechnological inventions in some ways have challenged the legal system of providing market exclusivity through patents. First of all, their patentability has been questioned. Furthermore, the scope of protection conferred to these inventions is obscured because of the difficulty of applying legal concepts to complex biological phenomena. It is a recurrent question whether the legal solutions embedded in the patent system in an aggressive market correctly reflect inventors' contribution to the art, thus balancing the conflicting interests in an appropriate manner. When it comes to inventions in the biotechnological field, the requirements that a patent cannot be granted without the invention being disclosed, together with protection against equivalent solutions, raise practical problems, making the clash between technological reality and the legal frameworks evident. This book discusses patent legal issues regarding inventions in the field of biotechnology. The scope of a patent is of central concern, and since biotechnology is very different from other technologies, the requirements for disclosure and infringement are in focus. Eligibility issues are touched upon, although from more of an explanatory perspective, since the law is settled in this respect. The material for the analyses includes the European practices under the EPC, those of the United Kingdom, Germany, and the US. The mandated exclusions from patentability under the European patent laws of categories of plant and animal subject matter and certain biological processes are also analysed. Claim interpretation is the common theme. The challenge has been to present a comprehensive basis for grasping the substantive law for the field of biotechnology. The book examines thoroughly the differences between practices, and the consequences of those differences for the possibility of being granted a patent for an invention, and the infringement doctrines' effects for what might be called a patent's `after-life', i.e. the scope of its protection. As for the exclusions from patentability in Europe, the study reveals an inherent inconsistency in article 53(b) EPC, warranting an adjusted and more patent-legal understanding of the concepts. The principal message emerging in this book is the importance of relying on the policy arguments of uniformity and predictability in order to preserve a fair balance between an inventor and third parties, since in reality much of the controversy in this field turns on proper protection.

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