Solidarity in water management

The Faculty Organize, but Management Enjoys Solidarity

In Critical Solidarity

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Digital Solidarity

Over the last two decades, the Internet has been a laboratory for social innovation. One of the most unexpected collective discoveries has been the existence of another mode of organization to achieve large−scale co−ordination. This mode relies neither on the market, where price signals perform important co−ordinating functions horizontally (as Friedrich Hayek famously stated), nor on public an...

[Tuberculosis and solidarity].

Tuberculosis is very probably the oldest human epidemic and the one that has inflicted the most harm in the history of the species. Recent studies have estimated tuberculosis to be about 3 million years old,1 and during much of that time this disease has been our greatest scourge. It is difficult to accept that tuberculosis has been causing harm for so many millions of years and that even today...

Saltman on solidarity

Richard Saltman suggests that solidarity, a cherished notion at the heart of West European health care systems is being reconsidered in the light of today's austere economic conditions. Solidarity, he argues, has always been a flexible moral guideline, one that allows for policy responses, such as limitations on health benefits or increased out of pocket payments, that challenging fiscal condit...