30 de maig 2016

Giving the priority to the worse off

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Egalitarianism Finally I've found a book that explains the concept of egalitarianism and its implications with a clear message. Dis...
20 de maig 2016

Taxing the rich to feed the leviathan

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Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe In deep endebted states, the endless debate about direct tax...
13 de maig 2016

Trade-offs between publicity and secrecy in drug regulation

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Secret-Public Voting in FDA Advisory Committees Secrecy and Publicity in Votes and Debates Most of us can remember the withdrawal of anti...
12 de maig 2016

Clap your hands

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This is exactly what we have to do after reaching 150.000 visits to this blog!. Thank you so much for your interest! Today just listen to...
08 de maig 2016

Platforms, a business model (2)

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A long long time ago Michael Porter wrote Competitive Strategy a book that has been used as the bible of strategy. Porter’s model identifi...
06 de maig 2016

A prescription for pharmaceutical expenditure, is there any one?

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Pharmaceutical Expenditure And Policies If you want to know what's going on in OECD countries on pharmaceuticals, just read this pape...
30 d’abril 2016

Income and longevity, almost all you need to know

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The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014  The estimates of impact of income on longevity are no...
29 d’abril 2016

European health regulation on lab tests, the final round? (2)

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Last week, Theranos clinical lab has received more bad news. Though the final resolution is still pending, all available informations ra...

Platforms, a business model

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Platform scale Platform Scale   (n): Business scale powered by the ability to leverage and orchestrate a global connected ecosystem of pr...
17 d’abril 2016

Economic Ethics

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Oxford Handbook of Professional Economic Ethics Some economists, while watching the film Inside job , were astonished by Martin Feldstein ...
15 d’abril 2016

Where is the trade-off?

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The fallacy of the equity-efficiency trade off: rethinking the efficient health system What goes first? An equitable health system or an e...
14 d’abril 2016

The badness and the wrongness of inequality

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 On inequality Two ideas from the philosopher Harry Frankfurt : (1) from a moral point of view, economic equality does not really matter v...
12 d’abril 2016

The key piece of gear

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La peça clau de l'engranatge This is the original version of my abridged op-ed in El Punt Avui published last Sunday . (in catalan, yo...
08 d’abril 2016

Introducing nudging in the law

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Nudge and the Law. A European Perspective Alberto Alemanno is an HEC law professor focused on issues on behavioral policies and regulatio...