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AIDS Drugs for All Social Movements and Market Transformations

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ISBN-10: 1107632641

ISBN-13: 9781107632646

Edition: 2013

Authors: Ethan B. Kapstein, Joshua W. Busby

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Drawing on a rich set of interviews and surveys, this book shows how the global AIDS treatment advocacy movement helped millions in the developing world gain access to life-saving medication. The movement achieved this by transforming the market for AIDS drugs from one which was 'low volume, high price' to one based on access for all. The authors suggest that a movement's ability to transform markets depends upon whether: (1) markets are contestable; (2) they have framed their arguments to resonate across their target audiences; (3) the movement itself has a coherent goal; (4) the costs are low, or the benefit-to-cost ratio is favourable; and, finally, (5) institutions are present to reward…    
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Book details

List price: $27.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/29/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 337
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.100

Joshua W. Busby is an Assistant Professor in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin. He is also the Crook Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. He has published widely on social movements, global health, climate change and US foreign policy, including Moral Movements and Foreign Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2010).