Pharmanomics

Nick Dearden's book is about the structural foundations of a global market in life-saving medicines. A market dependent on taxpayer subsidies, but designed to strip both rich and poor governments of the power to improve health. An essential read for those that care about saving lives, and that want the system changed. -- Ann Pettifor, author of <i>A Case for the Green New Deal</i> brings together detailed investigative research with lessons from the frontlines of the fight for access to medicines. It exposes a global apartheid in which a few mostly white male Pharma bosses make billions while billions of people are left without essential medicines. It exposes how the problem of medical monopolies is not a few rule-breakers but the rules themselves. Most crucially, it shows how the system which put profits over people's lives was man-made, and how through collective action people can unmake it, for everyone's health. -- Winnie Byanyima, UNAIDS Executive Director and United Nations Under-Secretary-General Carefully researched ... Despite the depressingly familiar story of greedy, rapacious capitalism, this is a hopeful book. -- Mike Phipps * Labour Hub * Authoritative, detailed, practical and written with passion ... inspiring -- Clare Sansom * East Anglia Bylines * A fascinating account of the evolution of Big Pharma into a profit-hungry monster that destructively distorts a major component of the world's healthcare systems . an enormously useful book. * Counterfire *