Economic Resilience: What Role for Policies?

Manifestations of Economic Resilience in Hospitals: What do managers say?

Introduction: The area of healthcare requires crucial measures in the area of economic resilience. Regarding the important role of hospital managers in reaching the healthcare goals and realizing instances of the economic resilience in hospitals, the present study was conducted. The aim was to explore the perception of educational and healthcare centers’ managers in Isfahan regarding the concep...

Strategies for Network Resilience: Capitalising on Policies

Networked systems are subject to a wide range of challenges whose nature changes over time, including malicious attacks and operational overload. Numerous mechanisms can be used to ensure the resilience of networked systems, but it can be difficult to define how these mechanisms should be configured in networks that support many services that have differing and shifting requirements. In this pa...

Inequality in America : What Role for Human Capital Policies ?

Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies? edited by Benjamin M. Friedman (MIT, 369 pp., $40). Forty years ago, most experts on inequality believed poverty itself was the cause of poverty--the result of discrimination and lack of money. The solution was, therefore, to compensate for discrimination through affirmative action and to transfer money to the poor through welfare pro...

Economic Freedom: Policies for Prosperity

To build a better world, we must have the courage to make a new start. We must clear away the obstacles with which human folly has recently encumbered our path and release the creative energy of individuals. We must create conditions favourable to progress rather than “planning progress.”... The guiding principle in any attempt to create a world of free men must be this: a policy of freedom for...

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