Our article "NFL Player Health Care: Addressing Club Doctors' Conflicts of Interests and Promoting Player Trust" focused on an inherent structural conflict that faces club doctors in the National Football League. The conflict stems from club doctors' dual role of providing medical care to players and providing strategic advice to clubs. We recommended assigning these roles to different individu...

We begin by stipulating three central points upon which we and the broad consensus of commentators agree. First, the effects of reinforcers on behavior can be readily demonstrated under conditions in which the antecedents of behavior are not identified. That is, orderly functional relations emerge between operants and reinforcers when the experimental analysis of the effects of antecedents is i...

Health care spending has risen steadily in most countries, becoming a concern for decision-makers worldwide. Commentators often point to new medical technology as the key driver for burgeoning expenditures. This paper critically appraises this conjecture, based on an analysis of the existing literature, with the aim of offering a more detailed and considered analysis of this relationship. Sever...

Let me begin by thanking both the Dorothée Legrand, the editor of this special issue, and Timothy Bayne, general editor of PSYCHE for their great and sustained efforts to make this debate possible. Everyone who has ever done this type of service to the philosophical community knows how much work it really is – I am therefore more than grateful to both of them, and I am certain that the same is ...

Proximal mirroring of distal similarities is, at present, the only solution to the Problem of Representation that is both theoretically sound (for reasons discussed in the target article) and practically feasible (as attested by the performance of the Chorus model). Augmenting the latter by a capability for referring selectively to retinotopically defined object fragments should lead to a compr...

Michael A. PetersOnce commentators and policy-makers divest themselves of deep cultural Western assumptions that only democracies can prosper economically, or capitalism liberal democracy ...

Numerous observers have expressed growing concerns regarding health care delivery, medical malpractice, and litigation against health care providers, although, for years, all fifty of the states have instituted and applied a broad spectrum of medical malpractice reforms while experimenting with various other measures. Some commentators believe that the health care delivery system is now experie...

Over the last few years there seems to have been a sharp increase in the number of books that want to spread the news that economics is, or at least can be, fun. This paper sets out to explain in what senses economics is supposed to be fun. In particular, the books in what I will call the economics-made-fun genre will be compared first with papers and books written by economists with the explic...

Positivity, or the experimental treatment assignment assumption, requires that there be both exposed and unexposed participants at every combination of the values of the observed confounders in the population under study. Positivity is essential for inference but is often overlooked in practice by epidemiologists. This issue of the Journal includes 2 articles featuring discussions related to po...

Many social commentators have raised concerns over the possibility that increased sorting in society can lead to greater inequality. To investigate this, we construct a dynamic model of intergenerational education acquisition, fertility and marital sorting and parameterize the steady state to match several basic empirical ...ndings. We ...nd that increased marital sorting will signi...cantly in...