Counterfeit Itineraries in the Global South: The Human Consequences of Piracy in China and Brazil

by Rosana Pinheiro-Machado

Book Overview

At the end of the 1970s, Chinese merchandise moved to Brazil via Paraguay, forming an on-the-margins-of-the-law trade chain involving the production, distribution, and consumption of cheap goods. Economic changes in the twenty-first century, including the enforcement of intellectual property rights and the growing importance of emerging economies, have had a dramatic effect on how this chain works, criminalizing and dismantling a trade system...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367594722
• ISBN13: 9780367594725
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"