It is essential to understand the consumption pattern of food and how it changes over time to formulate sound economic policies as well as marketing and pricing strategies. In this study, we estimate the Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System with six rounds of the Family Income Expenditure Survey exploiting the conditional linearity of the demand system. We find that the Filipino diet has become...

Advances in medical technology now permit children who need ventilator assistance to live at home rather than in hospitals or institutions. What does this ventilator-dependent life mean to children and their families? The impetus for this essay comes from a study of the moral experience of 12 Canadian families--parents, ventilator-dependent child, and well siblings. These families express great...

Despite the “turn to values” in Public Administration, there is still a lack of empirical research situ that investigates how various stakeholders interaction develop strategies deal with conflicting values over time. By using new pragmatist approach, this article fills gap by investigating policy experiments Dutch healthcare. The results show professionals, citizens, and policymakers different...

Continuing tensions exist between mainstream bioethics and advocates of the disability rights movement. This paper explores some of the grounds for those tensions as exemplified in From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice by Allen Buchanan and coauthors, a book by four prominent bioethicists that is critical of the disability rights movement. One set of factors involves the nature of disabil...

Cet article confronte la réception du sublime kantien chez Schiller et Schelling, ainsi que leurs analyses tragique, en particulier héros tragique. Ce dernier incarne pour les deux auteurs réalisation de liberté humaine. Toutefois, malgré similitudes qu’offrent pensées, des différences majeures existent. L’article vise à faire voir ces comprendre faisant appel aux positions philosophiques plus ...