In this paper, we argue that rationing has been neglected as a policy option for mitigating climate change. There is broad scientific consensus avoiding the most severe impacts of change requires rapid reduction in global emissions. We could help states reduce emissions rapidly and fairly. Our arguments paper draw on economic analysis historical research into UK during (and after) two world war...

To investigate the nutritional status of the population of the UK during the Second World War, nutritional surveys were commissioned in 1941. These included surveys of two groups of pregnant women: the first comprised 120 working-class women who were studied in the spring of 1942, and a second group of 253 women in 1944. Both groups were followed up until after delivery. Detailed biochemical as...

I develop a theoretical model of price discrimination under social influence. I find that social influence gives sellers the incentive to artificially create and maintain excess demand on the market. The rationing occurs mainly at the low end of the market, and sometimes results in full rationing of the low end. Furthermore, the incidence of price discrimination under social influence is much l...

© 2011 THE AUTHORS JOURNAL COMPILATION © 2011 CIPFA A combination of economic pressures and increasing demands on health care budgets has resulted in a resurgence of the rationing debate (Donaldson et al., 2010; Moore, 2010). Despite a burgeoning generic literature on health care leadership, prescriptions for explicit rationing (‘priority-setting’) have almost completely ignored the leadership ...

in this paper, we introduce non-interest profit/loss sharing (pls) banks into a three-period overlapping generations model. two types, (low- and high quality) investments are assumed and capital accumulation and level of output in the steady state is considered. then, administrative rationing is introduced to the model. it is shown that the level of capital accumulation and output in equilibriu...

This paper introduces a dynamic model of the wealth distribution with aggregate risk in the capital market; the model combines credit rationing and portfolio selection decisions. In a closed economy the long-run behaviour of wealth is independent of the initial income distribution when there is aggregate uncertainty, although further restrictions are necessary when there is no aggregate uncerta...

Due to the rapid progress in medical technology social insurance systems will soon no longer be able to grant health services without limits but must employ non-price rationing devices. This raises the question how these limits will be determined. Here we consider a direct democracy where the size of the social health insurance plan is determined in a popular referendum using simple majority ru...