Most Recent Articles from Journal of Economic Issues

• Beware those offering "gold standards": evidence-based medicine and the potential for institutional change in clinical-medical provision 

  Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has meteorically emerged to dominate contemporary medical methods and practicess. Its proponents argue that it offers...

  12/01/08 by Robert McMaster · More from publication

• Universal health care and the economics of responsibility 

  In the American health care system the cost of health insurance is underwritten by all three sectors of the economy: I) households; 2) employers;...

  12/01/08 by Dell P. Champlin · More from publication

• The invisible hands behind the student evaluation of teaching: the rise of the new managerial elite in the governance of higher education 

  We contend that the notion of teaching effectiveness has no verifiable empirical content and therefore the question of teaching score validity is...

  12/01/08 by Calin Valsan · More from publication

• The feminist political economy of the rent-seeking society: an investigation of gender inequality and economic growth 

  Endogenous growth theorists argue that certain equity-enhancing social institutions enhance growth. Despite the centrality of inequality in these...

  12/01/08 by Elissa Braunstein · More from publication

• Women as wives, mothers or workers: how welfare eligibility requirements influence women's labor force participation—a case study of Spain— 

  During the last thirty years, one of the most remarkable trends in Western Europe and North America has been the increase in women's labor force...

  12/01/08 by Tonia L. Warnecke · More from publication

• Innovation and economic activity: an institutional analysis of the role of clusters in industrializing economies 

  This paper focuses on the notion of "industrial clusters" as a descriptor to discuss innovation in less-developed or industrializing economies. A...

  12/01/08 by Saeed Parto · More from publication

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