Re: Re: Keeping focus after the WTO

[Sam Pawlett <rsp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brad De Long wrote:
>
>
> One view--a view that has evidence supporting it, but that I am not
> sure is correct--is that our best chance for large-scale technology
> transfer is free trade: more economic contact between center and
> periphery means more technology transfer to the periphery. And the
> bosses won't be able to appropriate *all* of the gains.
>

 But with TRIPS and the various intellectual property and technology
agreements that are specifically designed to ensure that tech transfer
does not occur, how is it supposed to occur? And with the majority of
the populace gaining something from it?

Sam Pawlett