although american health policy debates address similar problems to other developed nations, it has factual and ideological specificities. i agree with chinitz and rodwin on the dominance of micro-economics thinking. however, i am not certain that learning from management theory or modifying medical education will be powerful enough to change the system. the vested interests of the stakeholders...

The vast majority of existing multidimensional scaling (MDS) procedures devised for the analysis of paired comparison preference/choice judgments are typically based on either scalar product (i.e., vector) or unfolding (i.e., ideal-point) models. Such methods tend to ignore many of the essential components of microeconomic theory including convex indifference curves, constrained utility maximiz...

Although American health policy debates address similar problems to other developed nations, it has factual and ideological specificities. I agree with Chinitz and Rodwin on the dominance of micro-economics thinking. However, I am not certain that learning from management theory or modifying medical education will be powerful enough to change the system. The vested interests of the stakeholders...

Many pharmacy schools have increased the amount of economics coursework to which pharmacy students are exposed in their prepharmacy and pharmacy curriculums. Students obtain competencies aimed at understanding the basic concepts of microeconomic theory, such as supply and demand. However, pharmacy students often have trouble applying these principles to real world pharmaceuticals or healthcare ...

This article delivers a novel economic analysis of US dependence on China for rare-earth elements and sheds light how Western nations may exploit the limitations limit pricing to break China’s global monopoly in element production refinement. analytical framework, supported by comprehensive literature review, application microeconomic industrial organization concepts, two case-study scenarios, ...

Cost–benefit analysis (CBA) is considered an effective evaluation method for fostering optimal decision making and ranking of road infrastructures over decades. This paper introduces a comprehensive systematic literature review focusing on CBA’s methodological perspective identifying its current modelling approaches scrutinizing their key features encompassed tools. Fifty-six relevant studies w...

Agents involved in the formation of a social or economic network typically face uncertainty about the benefits of creating a link. However, the interplay of such uncertainty and risk attitudes has been neglected in the network formation literature. We propose a dynamic network formation model that builds on standard microeconomic concepts of utility maximization, incomplete information, and ris...

The importance of strategic information systems (SIS) in the financial industry is documented in many studies. But still there is a virulent lack of frameworks to explain the profit impact of IT in general and to guide firms in exploiting the IT resource as a source of competitive advantage. By incorporating findings from the resource based view (RBV) and strategic alignment literature we elabo...

Gamification is an effective strategy for motivating and engaging users, which grounded in business, marketing, management by designing games nongame contexts. Gamifying education, consists of the design study educational games, emerging trend. However, existing classroom understanding macroeconomics have weak connections to microfoundations individual decision-making. We game on cryptocurrency...

Economic governance in Australia has undergone radical changes since the 1970s. Many of these changes are associated with the market-oriented policies collectively referred to as ‘microeconomic reform’. Broadly speaking, microeconomic reform can be defined as government policies or initiatives aimed at improving the performance and/or the efficiency of industries or sectors in the economy (Fors...