Biodiversity law has had some unintended effects

Varieties of Employee Ownership: Some Unintended Consequences of Corporate Law and Labor Law

Employee ownership has ideological cachet in all advanced industrialized democracies. For many observers, the principle of selfgovernance underlying political democracy extends to the economic sphere. All institutions essential to the basic structure of society must be consistent with the norms of moral equality and autonomy. Since corporations allocate income in a market society, and thereby d...

The law of unintended consequences?

The law of unintended consequences.

Approximately 25 years ago, a group of concerned citizens, led by the celebrity couple Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden, lobbied for a strict rent control law in the ocean-side California city of Santa Monica. Real estate prices had recently escalated dramatically, and monthly rent prices for the city’s apartments had begun to increase as well. The newspapers were filled with touching stories about el...

Has bedside teaching had its day?

Though a diverse array of teaching methods is now available, bedside teaching is arguably the most favoured. Students like it because it is patient-centred, and it includes a high proportion of relevant skills. It is on the decline, coinciding with declining clinical skills of junior doctors. Several factors might account for this: busier hospitals, broader roles of clinicians, competing teachi...

The law of unintended consequences and antibiotics

Antibiotic therapy has been of unquestionable value in terms of saving lives and reducing suffering caused by infectious diseases. However, the widespread and indiscriminant use of antibiotics has not been without significant consequences. Some of these consequences include increased antibiotic resistance in pathogenic strains of bacteria. In addition, the indiscriminate use of antibiotics has ...