Harrison analyzes how the U.S. research pharmaceutical industry,
faced with domestic political opposition to the prices it charged
for prescription drugs, chose to pursue its policy goal of greater
appropriability of its intellectual property through the
institutions of foreign economic policymaking. As Harrison
explains, a new body of literature has developed to analyze the
emergence of intellectual property as a major international trade
issue. For many researchers, the inclusion of trade related
intellectual property (TRIPS) into the Uruguay round of the General
Agreement on Tariffs and trade (GATT) negotiations marks an
important demonstration of the political influence of U.S.
knowledge-intensive industries. However, as he demonstrates, a more
thorough specification of the domestic political environment
reveals that the research pharmaceutical industry was incapable of
achieving its domestic policy objectives at the same time that it
is credited with immense international political power. By
providing a theory of institutional choice, Harrison reconciles
this incongruity. He explains the strategic choices of the research
pharmaceutical industry as a function of the transaction costs
associated with pursuing its policy objectives within a variety of
institutional alternatives. He concludes that he
internationalization of intellectual property rights was a result
of the changing domestic political environment in which the
research pharmaceutical industry found itself the loser in a series
of domestic economic policy battles. A thoughtful analysis of
particular important to scholars, researchers, and policy makers
involved with international trade, intellectual property, the
pharmaceutical industry, and public policy.
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