Rational or Irrational?

antibiotic prescribing review: rational or irrational therapy?

Medicine, ethics and religion: rational or irrational?

Savulescu maintains that our paper, which encourages clinicians to honour requests for "inappropriate treatment" is prejudicial to his atheistic beliefs, and therefore wrong. In this paper we clarify and expand on our ideas, and respond to his assertion that medicine, ethics and atheism are objective, rational and true, while religion is irrational and false.

Investors’ Herd Behavior: Rational or Irrational?*

This study examines the relationships between the herding of various investor groups and trading noise in the Taiwan stock market to determine whether any of the investor groups tend to herd rationally. The study uses a unique and comprehensive data set on intraday transactions and limit order books of the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE). We calculate the high-frequency herding measures and tradin...

Rational and Irrational Bubbles

EDITORIAL / - Blockade - rational or irrational therapy for congestive heart failure ?

CLINICAL AND BASIC RESEARCH in the arena of congestive heart failure is intensive. Nevertheless, accepted treatment modalities for patients with this debilitating and fatal disease are limited to just three: digitalis, diuretics, and vasodilators, and only the latter has been demonstrated to improve survival in patients with congestive heart failure.1 Although cardiac transplantation markedly r...