Kevin R. Cox author of An Advanced Introduction to Marxism and Human Geography, discusses this insightful topic.

By Robin Mansell and Ed Steinmueller

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In an excerpt from his new book, Iain Hay explores the process of getting your academic work published. […]

Intellectual property is in global turmoil. This is not surprising. In many industrialized countries, ‘intangible’ assets make up 70% or more of the economy, and intellectual property rights (IPRs) are a way to create incentives to generate those assets and then to protect those assets. Susy Frankel and Daniel Gervais go on to discuss, that from a rather obscure and technical topic for a few specialist lawyers, intellectual property since the 1980s has progressively become a major focus of business strategists, trade negotiators and developmental economists.

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