
Military secrets and the World Trade Organization
A world at peace depends on making knowledge which could be of military as well as commercial value a public good.
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Ugo Pagano teaches economics at the University of Siena. He is a director of the Associazione Marcello De Cecco and a member of the scientific committee of Fondazione Basso and of Disuguaglianze e Diversità, which counters inequalities including those due to knowledge privatisation.

A world at peace depends on making knowledge which could be of military as well as commercial value a public good.

‘Intellectual property rights’ as the foundation of ‘free’ markets is a notion difficult, intellectually, to sustain.