Partha Kar: NHS progress on diversity will need regulation and fines

Prevalence of yaws on Kar Kar Island, New Guinea.

The International Biological Programme has as one of its objectives the study of man's adaptation to his environment. With this in view the Australian Government, the Australian Academy of Science, and the Royal Society of England combined in a multi-disciplinary study of the population of Kar Kar Island, New Guinea. The organization of the projects studied and the field work were under the dir...

Will the NHS strategic plan benefit patients?

The first principle of the Toyota way, one of the world’s most successful management systems, is to base decisions on a long term philosophy that generates value for the individual, society, and the economy.1 The new strategic plan for the NHS (which, although often called the Darzi report, results from a year long strategic planning exercise involving thousands of NHS staff) is of internationa...

Will the NHS pay awards help recruitment?

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Diversity and Technological Progress

This paper proposes a tractable model to study the equilibrium diversity of technological progress and shows that equilibrium technological progress may exhibit too little diversity (too much conformity), in particular, foregoing socially bene…cial investments in “alternative”technologies that will be used at some point in the future. The presence of future innovations that will replace current...