TY - JOUR AU - Srinivas, K Ravi AB - Books control process, but the authors succeed in broadening their own background and interest, because all chap- the perspectives and surpassing traditional manage- ters allow independent reading. ment jargon and simplified schemes. These chapters The ones I have read are well written, well docu- are stuff to read and process, and require quite some mented and in my opinion of high policy relevance concentration and effort from the reader. The to a society and its decision makers (high-rank offi- specialist reader will presumably enjoy the good cials and politicians) concerned about sustainable overview material (as mentioned for part II). development. All chapters reflect the spirit of the Every chapter also covers the selected main issues common project and common understanding (per- and the arguments are generally well presented and haps also values) of the social learning group. This documented. As part II started with a particularly really adds a lot of value to this edition very differ- interesting overview article, part III ends with such a ent from some other edited books that seem to be chapter. This chapter also presents three figures that composed of randomly sampled contributions. show for the three main issues the ‘managerial’ ad- For TI - Promises and drawbacks of a global IPR regime JF - Science and Public Policy DO - 10.1093/spp/31.1.85 DA - 2004-02-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/promises-and-drawbacks-of-a-global-ipr-regime-Q3yRe3kViT SP - 85 EP - 86 VL - 31 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -