'Breaking Bad' Contracts: Bargaining for Masculinity in Popular Culture

Bargaining over Incentive Contracts

Standard contract theory assumes that the principal holds all of the bargaining power. By implementing alternating o¤er and strategic delay, we transform the one-shot contracts design game into the in…nite-horizon contracts bargaining game. The uninformed principal and the informed agent bargain over multiple dimensions. Our paper presents the following new results. When the di¤erence between t...

Breaking bad news.

Breaking Bad News

Even the most skilled physician knows that conveying bad news to a patient or family can be one of the most arduous aspects of health care. Historically, breaking bad news is a skill that has generally been under-emphasized in training programmes. Critical care physicians are commonly faced with the difficult task of breaking bad news, often in dramatic, emotional and unexpected situations. Bre...

Christianity and Popular Culture

Myths of Popular Culture

The aim of this article is to explore some critical moments in the formation of ‘popular’ culture studies. This objective is not exhaustive, cannot be exhaustive in the space of a single article, since popular cultural studies have grown into an academic industry which not even five live-times of academic work by any individual can exhaust! This article is therefore, a rapid but hopefully, prov...