Scientists, meet capitalists

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Sponsors meet scientists to speed pediatric medicines development.

The Point-Person Project, a child-health research initiative, enables rapid response to opportunities for participation in multicenter pediatric clinical trials.

Mentoring Nurse Scientists to Meet Nursing Faculty Workforce Needs

Research indicates that mentoring has been highly effective in promoting faculty success. Strong mentors in the area of scholarship are extremely valuable for junior faculty, not only because of their research and academic expertise but also for their role modeling behaviors. This paper highlights key components of research mentoring used by a senior nursing faculty member. The senior faculty m...

Workers , Capitalists , Wages , and Employment ∗

Standard new Keynesian models assume the functional distribution of income is irrelevant. This stands in contrast to much of the public debate which presumes that a shift in the distribution of income towards workers will boost aggregate demand and employment. Under this latter view, falling wages during a recession can worsen unemployment. In contrast, neoclassical economics often views unempl...

Rent Extraction by Capitalists

The capital income share exceeds the capital output elasticity if capital owners extract rents. Based on a sample of 111 countries during the period 1970-2010, this paper provides estimates of the capital output elasticity and compares these to countries' capital income shares. Three findings arise: (i) for the average country in the sample, the capital income share significantly exceeds the ca...