On a bright early morning of 25 February 2011, almost 1200 healthcare professionals gathered in a packed hotel ballroom in Singapore to witness the opening of a 2 day Conference on Integrated Care—the first academic and practitioner focused event solely devoted to the challenges of Integration of Care in Asia. The theme of the Conference was " Integrate Now, Create Health ". It signified the ur...

*We would like to thank Bengt Holmstrom, Jozsef Sakovics, and Jonathan Thomas for helpful conversations. We acknowledge financial support from the U.S. National Science Foundation through the National Bureau of Economic Research; the Leverhulme Trust; and the U.K. Economic and Social Research Council. This paper was written while the first author was on sabbatical at the London School of Econom...

Economics; he would like to thank that institution for its hospitality. Abstract We view a contract as a list of outcomes. Ex ante, the parties commit not to consider outcomes not on the list, i.e., these are " ruled out ". Ex post, they freely bargain over outcomes on the list, i.e., the contract specifies no mechanism to structure their choice; in this sense outcomes on the list are not " rul...

KRASHNA: STRIKE NOW by Dave McCarthy At yesterday a f te rn o o n ’s anti-war rally on the main quad SBP Dave Krashna called for a general b o y co t t o f classes. Dir­ ecting his a t tack no t only against the war bu t also against racism, sexism, and militarism, Krashna cited the Cambodian expansion as the “ ca ta lyst” prom pting him to propose the boyco tt . He implored the people o f Notr...

"Slime" played a brief and spectacular role in the 19th century founded by the theory of primordial slime by Ernst Haeckel. However, that substance was never found and eventually abandoned. Further scientific attention slowly began in the 1930s referring to slime as a microbial product and then was inspired by "How bacteria stick" by Costerton et al. in 1978, and the matrix material was conside...