Politics Roundtable
Social Policy Bond Blog
A surrogate marker is an event or a laboratory value that researchers hope can serve as a reliable substitute for an actual disease. A common example of this is blood cholesterol levels. These levels are surrogates, or substitutes, for heart disease. If a medical study demonstrates that a medication ...
Already the UN has conceded that the targets for safeguarding wild species and wild places in 2010 have been missed: comprehensively and tragically. Talk has not halted biodiversity ...
[Heath] promised a 'quiet revolution', in terms which understandably convinced his right wing that he had come over to their way of thinking. By ...
In his book, Professor Shoup estimated that the value of the free-parking subsidy to cars [in the US] was at least $127 billion in 2002, and possibly much more. ... “Who pays for free parking? Everyone but the motorist.” Free parking comes at a ...
The Iranian leadership’s own view of nuclear dangers is perhaps best exemplified by a comment made in 2001 by the former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, who entertained the idea ...
Some states make it illegal to sell cars at lower prices to high-volume dealers than to low-volume franchisees. Some prohibit car companies from selling ...
How many [books on morality and markets] take seriously the notion that our moral intuitions can be badly misguided for judging the operation of an impersonal market economy in the modern world? Not so many, though all seem to think they do.
...5% of movies pay for the other 95%, and success or failure is unpredictable. The best the studios can hope to do is find contractual mechanisms that back success after it happens and thus leverage their profits. This was what they had with distributors and cinemas, and it worked. They ...