Ethical tenets and political systems are one of the most controversial terminologiesin philosophy ofethics and politicalthought.That is why thinkers based upon theirintellectual  standpoint  have  reached  different  inferences  and  definitions  andelaborated  various  aspects  of  it  accordingly.Shariatisimilar  to  his  precedingthinkersmade the creation of ethicalpolitical system one of hi...

it is a possibility that when the parties to a contract choose the law of a country as the applicable law, that law may reject such agreement and refer the contract to another law. it is generally accepted that in such a situation, the provisions of the law chosen, excluding rules relating to conflict of laws, should apply to the contract. however, some lawyers believe that the substantive prov...

This paper investigates how hospital affiliation in a multi-hospital system (contract managed, owned, sponsored), the number of system hospitals, HMO and PPO contracts, and other factors, impacts hospital cost efficiency. Using a 1996-1999 panel of 248 hospitals, results show that for urban hospitals, increasing the number of hospitals in the system, system ownership and contract management/spo...