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March 18, 2022
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How Big Pharma Took Over Medicine
A conversation with Alexander Zaitchik, author of “Owning the Sun: A People’s History of Monopoly Medicine From Aspirin to Covid-19 Vaccines”
August 24, 2020
Alexander Zaitchik
How to Break a Big Pharma Monopoly on a Covid-19 Vaccine
The race for a cure has put a spotlight on corporate control over medical research. Under a Democratic administration, it doesn’t have to be that way.
June 3, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
Vaccines Don’t Make Money
Why we can't leave pandemic prevention to Big Pharma
May 21, 2020
Kate Aronoff
America’s Deadly Obsession With Intellectual Property
Privatizing lifesaving technology like vaccines and clean energy is bad for both the coronavirus and the climate crisis.
May 14, 2020
Magazine
Dean Baker
Building an Economy That Works Again
A practical blueprint for reform in the wake of the coronavirus shutdown
May 7, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
Reimagining the Post-Covid Economy
Six ideas for how to rebuild after the pandemic
March 18, 2020
Dean Baker
Inoculating the Coronavirus Vaccine Against the Profit Pandemic
Competition among private medical interests is impeding the race for the cure.
November 5, 2014
Danny Vinik
The One Thing Democrats and Republicans Say They Can Get Done in 2015 Will Put You to Sleep
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