What has Mattered to Economics Since 1970

What Has Changed Regarding Rural Poverty Since Vision to Action?

This report is one in the series of background studies prepared for the 2001 update of the World Bank's Rural Development Strategy. This series was created to disseminate findings of work in progress and to encourage the exchange of ideas among Bank staff and all others interested in development issues. This paper carries the name of the author and should be used and cited accordingly. The find...

What Has Economics to Say About Racial Discrimination?

Racial discrimination pervades every aspect of a society in which it is found. It is found above all in attitudes of both races, but also in social relations, in intermarriage, in residential location, and, frequently, in legal barriers. It is also found in levels of economic accomplishment; that is, income, wages, prices paid, and credit extended. This economic dimension hardly appears in gene...

Prevalence of thyroid cancer found in autopsy studies has not increased since 1970

BACKGROUND Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine cancer. Unlike most other cancers, the incidence of thyroid cancer has reportedly been rising and it is the fastest rising cancer diagnosed in women in the last few years. However, it is unknown whether this increased incidence can be explained by better detection techniques or represents a true increase in the cancer across the world. Prio...

Has Precedent Ever Really Mattered in the Supreme Court?

Coronavirus: Where Has All the Health Economics Gone?

As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to unfold there is an untold number of trade-offs being made in every country around the globe. The experience in the United Kingdom and Canada to date has not seen much uptake of health economics methods. We provide some thoughts on how this could take place, specifically in three areas. Firstly, this can involve understanding the i...