Assessing Law's Claim to Authority

Assessing Hospital Cooperation Laws

Assessing Piketty’s laws of capitalism

This paper tests Piketty's predictions that in the long run (i) the capital-income ratio, K-Y, is driven by the ratio between the rates of saving and income growth, s and g; and that (ii) the capital share of income responds to variations in the s-g ratio, along with the rate of return on capital, r. We assess the two predictions using both Piketty and Zucman's (2014) original data and a new lo...

The authority of a moral claim: Ian Ramsey and the practice of medicine.

This essay is the text of the first Ian Ramsey Memorial Lecture delivered by the author at Oxford University in December 1986. Ramsey, Bishop of Durham from 1966 until his death in 1972, was a philosopher whose interests were contemporary ethical issues created by the interaction of law, medicine, and religion. Dunstan describes Ramsey's contributions to moral discourse made through his parti...

How to Claim a Discovery

Setting limits for new particles or decay modes has been an active research area for many years. In high energy physics it received renewed interest with the unified method by Feldman and Cousins [1]. Giunti [2] and Roe and Woodroofe [3] gave variations of the unified method, trying to resolve an apparent anomaly when there are fewer events in the signal region than expected. They all discuss t...

A claim to fame: Thomas Sydenham.