Services as the Quid Pro Quo for a Safeguards Code

Quid Pro Quo Redressing the privileges of the banking industry

Quid pro quo: studies in the history of drugs

than to the traditional problems in the historiography of its subject. The text, which (as the editor shows) probably derives from medical teaching at Naples around the turn of the seventeenth to the eighteenth century, sheds little new light on the old controversial question of the bark's first introduction into European medicine. Obviously relying on Sebastiano Bado's Anastasis corticis peruv...

Quid Pro Quo: Information Sharing in Leisure Activities

This article explores information sharing in the context of amateur genealogists researching their Irish ancestry. Information sharing is an important feature of this hobby, with individuals networking with others to supplement information they have found when searching sources. Because of the nature of the hobby, reciprocal sharing behavior may be significant in this process. This study adopte...

Comparative Cognition: Rats Pay Back Quid Pro Quo.

Humans engage in exchanges of commodities or services, often paying back a commodity with a different service. New research suggests that rats can reciprocally trade food for allogrooming, and vice versa.

Political Quid Pro Quo Agreements: An Experimental Study

We experimentally study the common wisdom that money buys political influence. In the game, one special interest (i.e., a corporate firm) has the opportunity to influence redistributive tax policies in her favor by transferring money to two competing candidates. The success of the investment depends on whether or not the candidates are willing and able to collude on low-tax policies that do not...