Downturn in Pharmaceutical Stocks

Rakesh Bhandari bhandari at phoenix.Princeton.EDU
Fri Jun 4 14:58:35 PDT 1999


There is a short, informative history of anti monopoly measures (Kefauver, etc) taken against the drug industry in Robert Teitelman *Profits of Science: The American Marriage of Business and Technology*. See chapter 9 "Betting on Drug Discovery". Also discussed is how advances in biotechnology promise to rationalize R and D, hitherto conducted on a massive trial and error basis.

yours, rakesh



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