Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Rethinking Innovation -- 1 Poverty, Invisibility, and Innovation -- 2 Behaviourally Informed Innovation -- 3 Appropriate Technologies for the Global South -- 4 Globalization of Biopharmaceutical Innovation: Implications for Poor-Market Diseases --...

Despite the vast wealth generated in the last half century, in today’s world inequality is worsening and poverty is becoming increasingly chronic. Hundreds of millions of people continue to live on less than

In this chapter by Janice Stein warns about the dangers of adopting a narrow conception of productivity and efficiency. Building on her analysis in The Cult of Efficiency, she argues that the language of efficiency, understood narrowly as cost-effectiveness, confronts distinctive problems when...