Erratum: Why biotech don't pay dividends–yet

Why not cut pay ?

I interviewed over 300 business people, labor leaders, business consultants, and counselors of unemployed people, all in the Northeast of the United States, during the recession of the early 1990’s in order to learn why wages and salaries declined in only a few firms. Employers were reluctant to cut pay because they believed doing so would hurt employee morale, leading to lower productivity and...

Why Pay for Social Security ?

With regard to the legitimacy of welfare empirical evidence tends to defy pessimistic theories. Here this puzzling contradiction between facts and theory is seen as a result of insufficient understanding of people's motivations to support welfare. For improving such understanding an empirical instrument is developed and applied for measuring directly the various motivations people may have to p...

Why We Should Reject Biotech Patents from TRIPS

Why Pay NGOs to Involve the Community?

We examine the case for donors providing financial incentives to NGOs to increase community participation. We show that, when such incentives are provided, there need not exist any meaningful relationship between beneficiary welfare and the extent of community participation implemented by an NGO. Higher community participation is consistent even with reduced beneficiary welfare. Thus, eliminati...

Why pay attention to the artist?

A major part of the focus for this year’s Association for Medical Humanities conference in Truro (10–12 July) will be to examine the perspective of the artist within medical humanities. In part, this is being raised because it is felt that individual artists can become invisible in our field; it is their work that is displayed, discussed, made example of, often without attribution. One of us re...