Interest Groups in American Public Law

American Medicine and the Public Interest

American Medicine and the Public Interest, by ROSEMARY STEVENS, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1971, pp. xiii, 572, £9.00. Rosemary Stevens has delineated the effect on medicine of the formation of professional societies representing the specialties into which it became divided in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its introductory section, an examination of professionalizato...

American Medicine and the Public Interest

AMERICAN MEDICINE AND THiE PUBLIC INTEREST. By Rosemary Stevens. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1971. xiii, 572 pp. $18.50. In this second volume of a planned trilogy, Rosemary Stevens presents a sclholarly analysis of the evolution of specialization in American Medicine. In pointing out the transformation of the average doctor in a slhort span of time from relative scientific i...

Public Interest vs. Interest Groups: Allowance Allocation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme

This article presents a political-economy analysis of allowance allocation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). A common-agency model suggests that a politicalsupport maximizing government considers the preferences of sectoral interest groups besides public interest when allocating emissions permits. In the stylized model, industries represented by more powerful lobby groups face a lowe...

Balancing the Scales of Justice: Financing Public Interest Law in America. By the Council for Public Interest Law. Washington, DC. 1976. Pp. xvi, 361. $3.50 paper

In the public interest?

Restrictive patenting and licensing for cell-free fetal DNA testing has serious consequences for technology advances and benefits to public health.