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The role of employee‐generated externalities in explaining relative earnings for health‐service workers
Michael White, Ciaran O’NeillAsymmetric information between producer and consumer of health care gives rise to a principal‐agent relationship between these two parties. If the consumer of care can credibly…
A Veblenian‐inspired critique of the “quasi‐markets” concept
Robert McMaster“Quasi‐markets” is the term predominantly employed as a means of conceptualising and describing the market‐oriented reforms primarily, but not exclusively, to the welfare state in…
Lean production and disability
A.H.G.M. SpithovenSince the early 1980s, Dutch productivity rates have been driven by a shift from traditional mass production firms to lean production. It slightly counteracted the generally…
The social costs of media feeding frenzies
Daniel SutterConcern over the cost of excessive media coverage has increased in recent years. This paper offers an explanation of excessive coverage as an application of the tragedy of the…
Towards a theory of the entrepreneurial state
Tony Fu‐Lai YuThis paper attempts to develop a model of the “entrepreneurial state” based on Schutz’s theory of human action. It aims to improve the understanding of the nature of state action…
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- Professor Terence Garrett