No seminário GI SPARC de 25 de maio, Catherine Moury (NOVA FCSH) irá apresentar o paper de Catherine Moury, Diogo T. Pereira e Pedro P. Barros, intitulado "Business as Usual?  How the pharmaceutical industry protected its long-term interests during and after Eurozone Bailouts (2011-2020)". 

O seminário terá início às 14h30, na sala 2 do ICS-ULisboa e online, aqui (ID : 914 6530 2446; Password: 209982).

Resumo do artigo:

In this article we start from the assumption that the pharmaceutical industry accumulates material, instrumental, ideational and institutional power. Considering this, we expect that it would be very difficult for governments to reduce the rents of the pharmaceutical companies in the long-term, even when the former are externally constrained to reduce their spending. We test our argument by carrying out a qualitative analysis of a paradigmatic case study, the Portuguese economic adjustment program (2011-2014). We demonstrate that the conditionality associated with the international bailout was welcomed by Portuguese reformist ministers as an opportunity to decrease public pharmaceutical spending. However, the representatives of the industry took several initiatives to make sure that the decrease of its profits would be limited in scope and time. As a result, as soon as the bailout terminated, the industry was able to regain its rents.