Privacy Law's False Promise

International Practitioner Data Bank: false premise, false promise.

In 1984, the US General Accounting Office issued a report pointing out that physicians who lost their licence to practice in one state were continuing to practice in another [1]. In 1986, a federal court issued a ruling that physicians carrying out peer review activities in an Oregon medical clinic violated antitrust laws [2]. Both actions triggered calls for congressional action. Consumer advo...

The False Promise of Principled Negotiations

The false promise of the better argument

Tine Hanrieder International Theory / Volume 3 / Issue 03 / November 2011, pp 390 ­ 415 DOI: 10.1017/S1752971911000182, Published online: 20 September 2011 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1752971911000182 How to cite this article: Tine Hanrieder (2011). The false promise of the better argument. International Theory, 3, pp 390­415 doi:10.1017/S1752971911000182 Reque...

Strong, Weak and False Inverse Power Laws

Pareto, Zipf and numerous subsequent investigators of inverse power distributions have often represented their findings as though their data conformed to a power law form for all ranges of the variable of interest. I refer to this ideal case as a strong inverse power law (SIPL). However, many of the examples used by Pareto and Zipf, as well as others who have followed them, have been truncated ...

Network Neutrality and the False Promise of Zero-Price Regulation