Patents And Inequality | ThinkProgress
►http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/08/31/309483/patents-and-inequality
d’après l’OCDE les #brevets seraient le marqueur le plus clair des #transferts d’argent des pauvres et classes moyennes vers les riches :
Then, as now, drugs are cheap to produce, and it is only patent monopolies that make them expensive to buy. The main beneficiaries of patent protection are invariably more highly educated workers. A recent study of wealthy countries by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) found that the number of patents per capita was the most important factor determining the extent to which income was redistributed upward from those at the middle and bottom to those at the top over the last three decades.
#inégalités via @latrive #cdp