This essay introduces the political market framework (PMF) and discusses its implications for understanding local sustainability policy. The PMF conceptualizes public policy related to as product of exchange between governmental suppliers voter interest group demanders. After presenting a model, role institutions is introduced. Institutions structure relationships by determining transaction cos...

THIS is a collection of five addresses previously delivered by Sir Thomas Lewis, with a preface. The convincing logic of his views and the precision with which they are expressed make one feel that the book should be in the hands of every teaching physician and every professor of physiology. It speaks volumes for the sane discriminating insight of the author that he can combine an address writt...

It is remarkable that the great group of dust-hazard diseases are only mentioned, with a few lines of description, among "other diseases of the lungs." Increasing attention has been paid in the last twenty-five years to the diseases caused by free silica (silicosis) and combined silica (asbestosis), and pulmonary tuberculosis is often associated with these pneumoconioses. The chapters on Epidem...