Medical Economics (and Politics)

Medical Economics (and Politics)

G et ready! The landscape in medicine is probably going to change rapidly. The starting bell rang in December 2010 in Washington, DC, with very little fanfare when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned doctors from prescribing Avastin to patients with advanced-stage breast cancer. 1 Avastin, a potent but costly drug, has worked in some clinical trials by halting the spread of cancer and...

Economics and Politics

Constitutional Economics/Constitutional Politics

Why does the treatment of American constitutional politics presented in We the People depart so radically from models of constitutional deliberation developed in the type of constitutional economics pioneered by James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock? The paper defines three premises that account for the divergence, and concludes by proposing an inquiry into constitutional design that requires insig...

Telecommunications , Politics , Economics , and National Sovereignty

TECHNOLOGY—the societal process for the pro duction and operation of artifacts, both tangible and intangible—impacts virtually every other so­ cietal structure and process and is, in turn, influenced by them. From its inception at the early emergence of humans as a distinct species, technology was the in­ strument that extended our biological capabilities, eventually making possible increasingl...

Values, ideology and politics in ecological economics

Ecological economics is built on a value-commitment to study environmental issues and to contribute constructively to a more sustainable development path. However, many ecological economists still hesitate, it appears, to depart too much from other scholars by openly addressing issues of values and ideology. In this essay, the role of the scholar’s orientation with respect to values and ideolog...