[Ip-health] CPTech Brown Bag Seminar: Dean Baker on "The Proposal in the Free Market Drug Act for Public Financing for Prescription Drug Research (June 14, 2006)

[Joy Spencer]

The Consumer Project on Technology (CPTech) is hosting a seminar by Dean
Baker on "The Proposal in the Free Market Drug Act  for
Public Financing for Prescription Drug Research".

Date:    Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Time:    12:30pm-2:00pm
Venue:  1621 Connecticut Avenue Suite 500, Washington, DC 20009

The seminar will examine the inefficiencies and economic
distortionscreated by using patents to provide incentives for
researching prescription drugs. The seminar will also examine
alternative mechanisms that will eliminate these inefficiencies and
allow for drugs to be sold at their competitive market price without
patent monopolies.

Dr. Dean Baker is a macroeconomist and Co-Director of the Center for
Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. He previously worked as
a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and an assistant
professor at Bucknell University. He received his Ph.D in economics from
the University of Michigan.

His blog, /Beat the Press/ is located at http://beatthepress.blogspot.com.

His book _Getting Prices Right: The Battle Over the Consumer Price Index
_(M.E. Sharpe, 1997) was a winner of a Choice Book Award as one of the
outstanding academic books of the year. He also was also the author of
the weekly on-line commentary on economic reporting, the Economic
Reporting Review (ERR), (www.cepr.net), from 1996 - 2006.

He has worked as a consultant for the World Bank, the Joint Economic
Committee of the U.S. Congress, and the OECD's Trade Union Advisory
Council. His columns have appeared in many major media outlets including
the /Atlantic Monthly/, the /Washington Post/, and the /London Financial
Times/. He is frequently cited in economics reporting in major media
outlets, including the /New York Times/, /Washington Post/, and National
Public Radio.

If you would like to join us please RSVP your name, title, organization
and contact details to: joy.spencer@cptech.org or 202.332.2670 (t)