A Comment on “The Welfare Effects of Public Information" by Stephen Morris and Hyun

Social Value of Public Information: Morris and Shin (2002) Is Actually Pro-Transparency, Not Con: Reply

The comment by Lars Svensson (2006) is an important contribution to the debate on the welfare effects of public information. Morris and Shin (2002) had shown that the provision of more precise public information can, in principle, be detrimental to welfare, but Svensson’s note opens the debate on the quantitative significance of the result. Svensson (2006) makes two observations. First, the res...

Social Value of Public Information: Morris and Shin (2002) Is Actually pro Transparency, Not Con *

The main result of Morris and Shin (2002)–restated in papers by Amato, Morris, and Shin (2002) and Amato and Shin (2003) and commented upon by the Economist (2004)–has been presented and interpreted as an anti-transparency result: more public information can be bad. However, some scrutiny of the result shows that it is actually pro transparency: except in very special circumstances, more public...

Health Services Research Spending and Healthcare System Impact; Comment on “Public Spending on Health Service and Policy Research in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Modest Proposal”

The challenges associated with translating health services and policy research (HSPR) evidence into practice are many and long-standing. Indeed, those challenges have themselves spawned new areas of research, including knowledge translation and implementation science. These sub-disciplines have increased our understanding of the critical success factors associated with the uptake of research ev...

SOCIAL VALUE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION BY STEPHEN MORRIS and HYUN

History, Structure and Agency in Global Health Governance; Comment on “Global Health Governance Challenges 2016 – Are We Ready?”

Ilona Kickbusch’s thought provoking editorial is criticized in this commentary, partly because she fails to refer to previous critical work on the global conditions and policies that sustain inequality, poverty, poor health and damage to the biosphere and, as a result, she misreads global power and elides consideration of the fundamental historical structures of political and material power tha...