Money, Saving and Investment in English Economics, 1800-1850.

Saving money, saving lives.

In 1996, Duke Children's Hospital was in serious trouble. Its $11 million annual operating loss had forced administrators to make cutbacks. As a result, some caregivers felt that the quality of care had deteriorated. Parents' complaints were on the rise. Frustrated staff members were quitting. In this article, Jon Meliones, DCH's chief medical director, candidly describes how his debt-ridden ho...

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The value of environmental assets such as biodiversity, unique locations and the atmosphere may be hard to quantify. The implications of the irreversibility of decisions to destroy these has been the subject of extensive discussion. We analyze the value of such assets under conditions of uncertainty about future preferences, and show that this uncertainty will imply a conservation motive if it ...

Saving, Investment, and Growth: A Causality Test

In the second half of the last century, tremendous efforts were devoted to identifying sources of economic success by a few countries and causes of failure by most. In this process a voluminous literature ranging from the neo-classical to Marxist, neo-Marxist, and dependency theories has been developed to answer the question of disparity among different countries of the north vis-à-vis those of...

The Advent of Modern Medicine in Philadelphia, 1800-1850 *

The historian can quote sources to suit his own purpose. It would be easy to portray the American medicine of 1800 as essentially forward-looking and progressive, if just the right evidence were selected to support this interpretation. This was indeed the view of contemporary physicians themselves, who faced the nineteenth century confident that American science had more than caught up with tha...

Saving money through eDi integration