May 14 2007
The Baltimore Sun reports National Imaging Associates estimated several years ago that as many as 30 percent of imaging studies were not needed or not the correct test, although NIA believes the number may have declined as insurers have tightened the approval process. Several hypotheses are offered as to why too many...
May 12 2007
In Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan, and Carl J. Schramm write (p.91), Of the twenty-five largest firms in the United States in 1998, eight did not exist or were very small in 1960. In Europe, all twenty-five of the companies that were the largest in 1998 were already large in 1960....
May 12 2007
I've got an op-ed based on my book in today's Wall St. Journal! You'll soon see me at Wegmans buying a stack of ten copies.
READER COMMENTS
Tim Lundeen
May 12 2007 at 1:31pm
Congrats! Good article.
steve
May 12 2007 at 1:46pm
Thoma has an opinion on your article as well. You should keep him in check. 🙂
Patrick R. Sullivan
May 12 2007 at 2:47pm
Thoma doesn’t understand the difference between irrationality and ignorance. Maybe you should rewrite your article for him.
Tim Worstall
May 12 2007 at 2:55pm
The PR department for your book is working overtime. Well done them, there’ll be a few reviews turning up here and there when I get my copy.
bee
May 12 2007 at 3:14pm
Thoma fancies himself as brilliant but only parrots liberal economists who other fancy a brilliant
Laurent GUERBY
May 13 2007 at 5:54am
“Behind every policy that does more harm than good, there’s a special interest that favors it anyway.”
What about intellectual property? Kills millions of people every year, prevent progress of art and science worldwide.
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