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Op-Ed/Commentary

Economic GrowthInequalityTechnology Google AI Expert Warns of Massive Uptick in Productivity Growth: No Problems with Social Security

Dean Baker / May 01, 2023

Op-Ed/Commentary

COVID-19Intellectual PropertyTechnology Biden Can Transfer mRNA Technology and Leave the Legal Burdens with Moderna and Pfizer

The Biden administration could find ways around the legal weapons that Moderna and Pfizer might use to block the transfer of the technology they use to produce mRNA vaccines.

Dean Baker / September 22, 2021

Op-Ed/Commentary

InequalityIntellectual PropertyTechnology Will Dr. Fauci’s “Prototype” Vaccines Be Given to Pfizer and Moderna So that We Can Complain About Technology Creating Inequality?

Ideally it would place patent rights in the public domain, both so that scientists around the world can quickly build on the new innovations produced by this research, and so that any vaccines developed can be sold as cheap generics.

Dean Baker / July 26, 2021

Op-Ed/Commentary

COVID-19Intellectual PropertyTechnology Vaccine Production and Open Source Technology

Even where we are now, there is good reason to believe that we can hasten the process of vaccinating the world by freely transferring technology.

Dean Baker / May 08, 2021