Drug Formularies – Good or Evil?

Prescription Drug Formularies: Friend or Foe?

In the past 20 years, spending in all areas of health care has increased dramatically. In 1980, the national health expenditure per capita was $1,067. In 2000, our country spent $4,681 per person on health-care [6]. Expenditures on prescription drugs have played a major role in driving up our country’s health care costs, in fact, increasing at a rate twice as great as overall health care costs ...

Judging Good and Evil

Overview The use of " anti-virus " techniques in many modern worms recalls two stories: the " war " between virus writers and the possibility of a beneficial virus. This article examines both in light of recent events in the virus world. In early 2004, the release of Netsky began a rash of articles discussing " vigilante " coders trying to stop the spread of other worms. The war between Netsky'...

Good And Evil In Faust

Good Intentions and Unintended Evil

Relying on Adam Smith's concept of the "invisible hand," every economist can explain how markets react to individual economic power. Markets shape and reshape themselves to neutralize self-interested economic power by coaxing it into channels that serve the public good. But economists have devoted less attention to analyzing how markets systematically counteract coalitions of individuals' polit...

The Social Psychology of Good and Evil

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