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rogerashton

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4. It's not about trade.
Fri May 15, 2015, 09:48 AM
May 2015

The TPP is about "intellectual property" -- that is, trade-marks, copyright, patents -- and that is: about monopoly. To use Stiglitz' language, it is "rent seeking behavior." Crony capitalism.

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