Horizontal Review between International Organizations: Why, How, and Who Cares about Corporate Regulatory Capture

River Water Quality: Who Cares, How Much and Why?

An important motivation for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive is the creation of non-market environmental benefits, such as improved ecological quality, or greater opportunities for open-access river recreation via microbial pollution remediation. Pollution sources impacting on ecological or recreational water quality may be uncorrelated, but non-market benefits arising from r...

Home mechanical ventilation: who cares about how patients die?

H ome mechanical ventilation (HMV) is increasingly being used to treat chronic hypercapnic respiratory failure arising from different aetiologies, such as restrictive thoracic disorders, neuromuscular disorders (NMD), obesity hypoventilation syndrome and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) [1–3]. The prognosis of patients receiving HMV depends on both the type and state of disease upon...

Who Cares about Racial Inequality?

I have been known over the years as a critic of affirmative action policies. However, in the wake of a successful ballot initiative banning affirmative action in the state of California, I now find it necessary to reiterate the old, and in my view still valid, arguments on behalf of explicit public efforts to reduce racial inequality. In doing so, I want to stress that I am not defending racial...

The Why, Who, What, How, and When of Patient Engagement in Healthcare Organizations: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Who Cares about Mortgage Interest Deductibility?

We use the U.S. Survey of Consumer Finances to measure the change in federal tax liability that would result should mortgage interest no longer be deductible from taxable income. We argue that the elimination of this housing tax provision would lead households to reshuffle their balance sheet, thereby lowering the amount of interest income taxes collected. We find that the cost of this tax prov...