"Humira is [US]America's top-selling drug, and it treats rheumatoid arthritis ... AbbVie, the company [set up to hold patents on Humira] ... had filed for 247 patents on this drug, at the time the report was released in 2018, and 136 ... had been granted.
... because of that lengthened monopoly period ... the cost to [US]Americans is at least an extra US$14 billion."
#PritiKrishtel, Co-Executive Director, I-MAK, 2020
Podcast description: We are living through a paradigm shift from trickle-down neoliberalism to middle-out economics — a new understanding of who gets what...
Listen to Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer - The Middle-Out Moment Is Still Here by Civic Ventures on Podcast Addict. Twelve months ago, Democracy Journal announced we were entering the "Middle-Out Moment." A year later—after a brutal election and rising uncertainty—the question isn’t whether neoliberalism is over, but what comes next. In a new symposium titled “It’s Still the Post-Neoliberal Moment,” Democracy brings together leading voices to answer that question. In this episode, we
Listen to Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer - The Middle-Out Moment Is Still Here by Civic Ventures on Podcast Addict. Twelve months ago, Democracy Journal announced we were entering the "Middle-Out Moment." A year later—after a brutal election and rising uncertainty—the question isn’t whether neoliberalism is over, but what comes next. In a new symposium titled “It’s Still the Post-Neoliberal Moment,” Democracy brings together leading voices to answer that question. In this episode, we
Listen to Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer - Wall Street’s War on Workers (with Les Leopold) by Civic Ventures on Podcast Addict. Mass layoffs have become a routine corporate strategy—not because companies are struggling, but because Wall Street demands it. In Wall Street’s War on Workers, labor educator and author Les Leopold exposes how stock buybacks, deregulation, and financialized capitalism have made job cuts a tool for enriching CEOs and hedge funds at the expense of workers and communities. He joi
Listen to Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer - The Middle-Out Moment Is Still Here by Civic Ventures on Podcast Addict. Twelve months ago, Democracy Journal announced we were entering the "Middle-Out Moment." A year later—after a brutal election and rising uncertainty—the question isn’t whether neoliberalism is over, but what comes next. In a new symposium titled “It’s Still the Post-Neoliberal Moment,” Democracy brings together leading voices to answer that question. In this episode, we
"I have an 11-year old and I want her to actually have a future. If we’re not focusing on this stuff, if we are talking about trivia, if we’re doing the politics of distraction, you’re putting my 11-year old’s future and everyone else in her generation in deep, deep risk. That is unacceptable."
#MarkBlyth, 2022
https://pitchforkeconomics.com/episode/why-wont-trickle-down-die-with-mark-blyth/
Hell yes!
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the cranky hermit🌻
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