>> Roberto Verzola's pieces on the the information economy have been
>> collected into a book, entitled Towards a Political Economy of
>> Information: Studies on the Information Economy, which will be launched
>> on March 10, 2004 by the Foundation for Nationalist Studies (FNS). He
>> may be reached at rverzola at gn.apc.org.
>>
>> The following is the table of contents of the book:
>>
>> Part I. Information and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
>> 1. The miracle of the loaves
>> 2. A new offensive against the Third World
>> 3. U.S. piracy in the 19th century
>> 4. The 'piracy' of intellectuals
>> 5. GATT: Free Trade or Monopoly Growth?
>> 6. IPR: a clash of value-systems
>> 7. Towards a political economy of information
>>
>> Part II. ICTs and the Internet
>> 8. Expanding market for information economies
>> 9. A hierarchy of access
>> 10. ICT: job creator or destroyer?
>> 11. A poor learning environment
>> 12. An interactive idiot box
>> 13. Private space controlled by rentiers
>> 14. Perverse subsidies
>> 15. Internet cafes: connectivity for the masses?
>>
>> Part III. Genetic Information And Genetic Engineering
>> 16. Turning farmers into 'pirates'
>> 17. Pirating genetic resources
>> 18. Beware of modern vampires
>> 19. Biosafety and genetic contamination
>>
>> Part IV. Monopolistic Information Economies
>> 20. Information monopolies and the WTO
>> 21. Globalization: the third wave
>> 22. Cyberlords: rentier class of the information sector
>> 23. Testing the political strength of a cyberlord
>> 24. Globalization: poor design?
>> 25. What could be more important than efficiency?
>>
>> Part V. Alternatives: A Non-Monopolistic Information Sector
>> 26. A well-kept IT secret
>> 27. IT or AT?
>> 28. Community rights over biological material: property or moral rights?
>> 29. Low-cost strategies for ICT deployment in developing countries
>> 30. Greening the information sector
>> 31. Alternatives to globalization
>>
>>
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