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As Oliver Wendell Holmes famously put it in a 1919 US Supreme Court decision, "Even the most stringent
protection
of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting 'fire' in a crowded theater and causing a panic."
The tragedy of millions of impoverished people dying of AIDS even when drugs exist to treat them raises deep questions about global intellectual property rights, because patent
protection
is creating a barrier to essential medicines reaching the world's poor.
In rich countries, patent
protection
should continue so that the pharmaceutical industry keeps innovating.
Any viable solution requires that the following conditions be satisfied:- drug companies – whether patent holders or generic drug producers – must provide drugs to poor countries at prices near to production costs;- drug prices in rich countries must remain higher through patent
protection
to preserve incentives for innovation;- rich and poor markets must be separated, so that cheap drugs from poor countries are not smuggled into rich countries (or are not allowed in legally through parallel-market imports);- governments in rich countries must provide substantial assistance to poor countries, so that the poor – who are too poor to afford these drugs even at reduced prices – can make use of them.
If politicians cave in here – say, by eliminating patent protection, imposing price controls, or allowing re-import of drugs from poor countries – innovation for new drugs will stall.
The US also developed a particular populist belief that gun ownership constitutes a vital
protection
against government tyranny.
Since citizens’ militias are anachronistic, gun owners now use the second amendment merely to defend individual gun ownership, as if that somehow offers
protection
against tyranny.
But, instead of
protection
of freedom, Americans nowadays are getting massive bloodshed and fear.
In Africa, less corrupt countries like Ghana also have much better
protection
of civil liberties than more corruption-prone countries like Chad and Ethiopia, which are also even poorer.
Many foreign companies, intent on cashing in, fuel the pathology of corrupt regimes by peddling in bribes and political
protection.
In order to reduce the bilateral trade surplus, Japan introduced so-called voluntary export restraints, which hollowed out its real economy, while providing excessive
protection
to its non-tradable sectors.
Balancing its need for growth with climate
protection
makes China’s role precarious.
The process of integration was reversed after the WWI and finally destroyed in the Great Depression, in a series of vicious shocks: tariff protection, contagious financial panics that spread from the periphery to the heart of the world's financial system, and a turn to economic nationalism and autarky.
We are about to get a comprehensive package of re-regulation focused on capital requirements and leverage, transparency, ratings and other sources of information, incentives, conflicts of interest and limits on the scope of financial firms, consumer protection, and resolution mechanisms.
For starters, it could lower its standards for what is considered a “novel” product, and thus one that merits intellectual-property
protection.
Moreover, absolute
protection
for all deposits up to an ex ante threshold – say, €100,000 ($133,000) – should be firmly anchored within EU legislation.
To be sure, this does not mean that deposit
protection
should be unlimited.
Indeed, most of the goals that it includes – like reform of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), development of private enterprise, reduction of government intervention,
protection
of property rights, and creation of a modern market system – can be found in the resolution of the Third Plenum of the CCP’s 16th Central Committee.
Over the last 13 years, Liberia has made considerable progress, including in the
protection
of women’s rights.
Moreover, social
protection
must be extended to migrant workers, whose participation rate in basic medical insurance in 2009 was 13.1%, while 9.8% were covered by the state pension scheme and just 3.7% had unemployment insurance.
A second critical area is taxation and social
protection.
As California’s experience with referenda has shown, the public will often vote for contradictory things – for example, lower taxes and more welfare programs, or environmental
protection
and cheaper gas.
It is an enlightened body that places at its core liberal values such as individual rights, the
protection
of minorities, and a market-based economy.
Russia, by contrast, found it hard to find any takers for its assertion that civilian
protection
was the primary rationale for its South Ossetian adventure in 2008.
Libya again followed the textbook: Resolution 1970 applied targeted sanctions, an arms embargo, and the threat of prosecution at the International Criminal Court to concentrate Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s mind on civilian
protection.
A second way to combat the new xenophobia is to reinforce the
protection
of civil liberties.
The best
protection
of the dollar’s future role – and of the health of the US economy – will be policies that reduce the growth of the national debt.
At the same time, international calls for China to assume the responsibilities of a major power – not only in areas like trade and investment, but also on issues like environmental
protection
and global governance – are growing louder.
And the international community must find ways to provide support, protection, and shelter to Russia’s endangered human rights defenders.
Selective protection, credit subsidies, state-owned enterprises, domestic-content rules, and technology-transfer requirements have all played a role in making China the manufacturing powerhouse that it is.
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