Can We Deliver Better?

Mr Mom: can we deliver?

Man’s age-old fascination with the idea of male pregnancy is evident from numerous references to it in ancient mythology. Today, in the wake of the in vitro fertilisation (IVF) revolution and other examples of innovative reproductive technology opening up a world of reproductive possibility, the thought of procreation sans female captivates the public consciousness more than ever. Several attem...

We must--and we can--do better.

How Can Tertiary Education Deliver Better Value to the Economy?

Maternity care in Canada: what can we deliver?

For 22 years I delivered babies as a family physician—22 years of wearing a pager 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It was amazingly invigorating and inspiring, and at times onerous and overwhelming. September is the perfect time to talk about delivering babies—9 months after New Year’s, it is always a busy month in labour and delivery. This is a National Physician Survey (NPS) year, and one of th...

When can we do better than autarky?

This paper provides a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of nonautarkic contract in a risk sharing model with two-sided lack of commitment. Verifying the condition takes just one Gaussian elimination of a matrix. Published by Elsevier B.V.