From the Grabbing Hand to the Helping Hand

Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness

Abstract Why have economic reforms aimed at reducing the role of the state been successful in some cases but not others? Are reform failures the consequence of leviathan states that hinder private economic activity, or of weak states unable to implement policies effectively and provide a supportive institutional environment? We explore these questions in a study of privatization in postcommunis...

A helping hand for the invisible hand.

A helping hand.

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Case reports: A helping hand to generalists

Clinical decision making can be challenging for both generalists and specialists. Case reports may assist the decision making process either by providing guidance to generalists on identifying rarer conditions or a searchable database for looking up seemingly disparate symptoms. This editorial highlights the innovations being implemented by Journal of Medical Case Reports and Cases Journal in d...

Highlight: The Chaperone Network—Evolution's Helping Hand

Few courting couples today mourn the demise of the social chaperone. Yet, these party guards played, in their way, a useful role: escorting young people into society and barring ‘‘unwanted interactions.’’ The work of guides and separators is so important, in fact, that a kind of biomachinery crucial for life shares its name and partial job description with the venerable chaperones of old. Chape...