In the National Pilot Program on Payment Bundling, a subset of Medicare providers will receive a single payment for an episode of acute…
As we consider over two decades of change in Bolivia, it now seems to us that understanding history involves adjusting short-term…
Economic activity can damage natural systems and reduce the flow of ecosystem services. The harms can be substantial, as our case studies…
This article evaluates a body of recent work that uses field and natural experiments to answer the question of whether informed voters can…
American fiscal policy has been procyclical: Washington wasted the expansion period 2001–2007 by running budget deficits, but by 2011 had…
Seven possible nominal variables are considered as candidates to be the anchor or target for monetary policy. The context is countries in…
This paper identifies emerging trends in the world economy during the next decade. The first is that China will overtake the U.S. in terms…
The article
focuses on the plan of U.S. President Barack Obama to test the
pay-for-success approach as a financing model for social…
Consumerism arises when patients acquire and use medical information from sources other than their physicians. This practice has been…
Background: Data are lacking on the proportion of
physicians who face malpractice claims in a year, the size of those
claims, and the…