La morale ancienne et la morale moderne.

Morale hazard

We interpret workers’ confidence in their own skills as their morale, and investigate the implication of worker overconfidence on the firm’s optimal wage-setting policies. In our model, wage contracts both provide incentives and affect worker morale, by revealing private information of the firm about worker skills. We provide conditions for the non-differentiation wage policy to be profit-maxim...

Franglais a la mode moderne

A few years ago I was writing in this column about differences between languages. Dutch and Chinese are comparatively easy to learn. None the less, the various computer languages are another game altogether. Recently a French colleague in pathology, who is also interested in the use of words and in the modern techniques of the assembly of data bases and word processing was kind enough to let me...

Mismanagemenf turning evaluation program from morale booster to morale buster

" I t is b e c o m i n g inc reas ing ly c l e a r t h a t t he adm i n i s t r a t i o n is unab le to a c t e ^ e c t i v e l y in imp l e m e n t i n g th is p r o g r a m , " t he union p r e s i d e n t sa id . " W h a t h a s r e su l t ed is confus ion in m a n y work loca t ions and even chaos in o the r s . We a r e u rg ing any e m p l o y e e s who fee l t h a t t hey w e r e un fa i...

Sur la morphologie et la transmission d'Eperythrozoon coccoîdes

Stabilisation des antigenes claveleux et preparation d'un vaccin mixte contre la clavelee et la fievre charbonneuse