COVID‐19 and liver disease: Not all evil comes to harm

diabetes mellitus and fatty liver disease: which comes first?

All that glitters is not gold: elevated liver enzymes do not mean liver disease always.

The soot of all evil

Nanoparticles of carbon black in cigarette smoke trigger inflammation in the lung.

Is Profit Evil? Associations of Profit with Social Harm

In opposition to foundational economic principles, four studies show that people view profit as fundamentally socially harmful. Studies 1 and 2 find a strong negative correlation between profit and perceived social value across both real firms and entire industries. This relationship holds for both perceived profit and actual profit information from public data. Study 3 confirms that this effec...

Network Effects, Congestion Externalities, and Air Traffic Delays: Or Why All Delays Are Not Evil

We examine two factors that might explain the extent of air traffic delays in the United States: network benefits due to hubbing and congestion externalities. Airline hubs enable passengers to cross-connect to many destinations, thus creating network benefits that increase in the number of markets served from the hub. Delays are the equilibrium outcome of a hub airline equating high marginal be...