Should Drugmakers Give Up Their Rights in a Pandemic?

Описание: Today, many pharma innovators are being asked to give up their patent rights in order to share information relating to treatments that could potentially mitigate the death toll we are facing under the current covid-19 pandemic.

However, some drugmaker lobbyists have argued that pressuring drugmakers to pool their resources will do little to beat the clock. Should drugmakers give up their rights in a pandemic? Find his answer to this at the 29:51 minute mark.

Students For Liberty spoke with Dr. Tom G. Palmer about his life and his views, including some of today’s most pressing questions in the pro-liberty movement.

He tells us why moving to a regime with no intellectual property rights could have some negative consequences, particularly in pharmaceuticals, which he says are fairly easy to reverse engineer.

Tom G. Palmer is the editor of Why Liberty: Your Life, Your Choices, Your Future. He is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, and Vice President for International Programs at the Atlas Network.

In this interview, you’ll hear Tom Palmer address the following questions:

How would you introduce yourself to someone who doesn’t know you at all?
What does a day in your life look like?
What do you think about the journey of libertarianism all around the globe?
What topics do you predict will no longer be discussed in 10 years?
What’s your advice to young leaders who aspire to be as influential as you?

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DR. TOM. G. PALMER SPEAKING ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (29:51):

I do worry that moving to a regime with no intellectual property rights could have some negative consequences, particularly in pharmaceuticals, which are fairly easy to reverse engineer.

You just run through chemical analysis of what’s in the pill, and then you can reproduce it, and the marginal costs are very low because you didn’t have all of that overhead and research, and it could be that we would suffer a drying up of new pharmaceutical compounds and cures.

So that’s something that makes me hesitant about saying ‘just abolish it all.’ It’s a utilitarian concern.

INTERVIEW SNIPPETS:

How would you introduce yourself to someone who doesn’t know you at all?

TP: My name is Tom Palmer and I’ve been working for liberty for a long time. It’s my passion, it’s what I do, it’s what I think about when I wake up in the morning, and when I go to bed at night.

What does a day in your life look like?

(...) I get to meet really inspiring people who are working for freedom in so many different contexts, under totalitarianism or authoritarianism governments, under much freer societies all across the world, every religion, every race of humans, every ethnicity, and that love of freedom is present in all of them.

What do you think about the journey of libertarianism all around the globe?

The liberty movement is better equipped, better prepared, and better connected than at any time in human history. At the same time, we see threats on the horizon: the reemergence of forms of collectivism, of national socialism, of fascism, in various guises, reemerging around the world, and then the emergence of several states that are actively hostile to libertarian or classical liberal ideas.

What topics do you predict will no longer be discussed in 10 years?

It is my hope, not my prediction, that the utter stupidity and ignorance of protectionism will be effectively refuted in practice and in discourse.


What’s your advice to young leaders who aspire to be as influential as you?

More influential than me, that’s the number one thing. One of the reasons why I’m such a strong supporter of Students For Liberty is because I want them to do a better job than my generation has done, and I trust and believe that they will.

In order to do that, it means becoming more knowledgeable - that self-cultivation. Learn more, read more, read widely, and read the ideas of anti-libertarians. Understand their arguments and have an open mind.


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