Slate Money - Patent Races and Racism
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🗓️ 20 March 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Economics professor Lisa D. Cook stops by to discuss her New York Times article on the wide-ranging economic impact of discrimination, the racist history of patents and innovation, and vaccine IP questions.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:12.3 | Welcome to the patent races and racism episode of Slate Money, your guide to the |
| 0:20.0 | Business and Finance News of the Week. |
| 0:22.2 | I'm Felix Samuel of Axios. |
| 0:23.9 | I'm here with Emily Peck. |
| 0:25.6 | Hello. |
| 0:26.6 | And very excitingly, we are here with Lisa Cook. |
| 0:30.8 | Lisa, welcome to the show. |
| 0:33.1 | Thank you so much. |
| 0:34.7 | Introduce yourself. |
| 0:35.8 | Who are you? |
| 0:36.8 | Where are you? And what do you do? I Introduce yourself. Who are you? Where are you? |
| 0:37.7 | And what do you do? |
| 0:39.3 | I am Lisa D. Cook. |
| 0:42.0 | I am professor of economics and international relations at Michigan State University. |
| 0:48.3 | Which I'm not quite, I can never remember whether Anna Shamansky, that's the one she likes or the one she doesn't like. |
| 0:54.0 | But, well, I'm sure she's going to write in and does us. No, she's the University of Michigan. It's the other one. She's the other one. I think so. So I'm glad we didn't manage to have the great rivalry on this show. Professor Cook, you are an expert in many things. We had to sort of pick and choose a little bit, but we are going to talk a lot |
| 1:11.7 | about innovation on this show. We're going to talk about patents and how it's been very hard |
| 1:18.9 | historically for African Americans to get patents. We're going to talk about COVID and vaccine |
| 1:25.2 | patents. We have a whole Slate Plus segment on payments in not only the United States, |
| 1:31.1 | but also in Africa. We have a whole bunch of wide-ranging discussions, largely centered on this |
| 1:37.2 | whole question of innovation and intellectual property. We'll even take a trip with you to China |
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