Should There be Laws Mandating Nurse Practitioner/Patient Ratios?

How much should nurse consultants be paid?

There was no consensus on the issue of how much nurse consultants should be paid among the practitioners we spoke to at last week's UKCC roadshow. Some suggested starting salaries of around £25,000, and others said 'the sky's the limit'.

Should There Be Intraday Money Markets?

In this paper, we consider the case for an intraday market for reserves. We discuss the separate roles of intraday and overnight reserves and argue that an intraday market could be organized in the same way as the overnight market. We present arguments for and against a market for intraday reserves when the marginal cost of overnight reserves is positive. We also consider how reserves should be...

Why should there be an NICHD?

In its nearly 5 decades of existence, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development has expended $23 billion in conducting and supporting research and translating discoveries to practice. The resulting dramatic impact on peoples' lives and improved health for children and families, chronicled herein, are a testament to the benefits of having this institute ...

How Much Redistribution Should There Be?

Experiental Knowledge: Alfred Schutz Should Be There

In a conversation with Professor James March on his papers on experiential knowledge, we pointed out that his bibliographical references do not mention the works of Alfred Schutz. Jim March immediately answered “Yes, Alfred Schutz should be there”. Inspired by the phenomenological philosophy of Edmund Husserl and the interpretative sociology of Max Weber, Alfred Schutz (1899 1959) worked on the...