We analyze whether research funding contests promote co-authorship. Our analysis combines Scopus publication records with data on the Marsden Fund, premier source of for basic in New Zealand. use fixed-effect models to within-researcher-pair variation Among pairs who ever co-authored or co-proposed, co-authorship was 13.8 percentage points more likely a given year if they had co-proposed during...

this is a commentary on gilbert and colleagues’ (1) paper on morality and markets in the national health service (nhs). morality and values are not ephemeral qualities and universal healthcare is not simply an aspiration; it has to be enshrined in law. the creation of the uk nhs in 1948 was underpinned by core legal duties which required a system of public funding and delivery to follow. the mo...