Papers
May 5, 2009
Knowledge as a Global Public Good
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Joseph Stiglitz University Professor Department of Economics Columbia University |
In this chapter, Joseph Stiglitz outlines the concept of global public goods. He argues that knowledge is one such public good because it is non-rivalrous and non-exclusive. Knowledge also benefits development and increases private and public capital. Finally, Stiglitz highlights the implications of knowledge considering as a global public good for the international intellectual property rights regime.
This paper was originally published in Global Public Goods: International Cooperation in the 21st Century, Inge Kaul, Isabelle Grunberg, Marc A. Stern (eds.), United Nations Development Programme, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 308-325. Also published in International Intellectual Property in an Integrated World Economy, F. Abbot, T. Cottier, and F. Gurry, eds., Aspen Publishers, 2007.
