Riders in the storm: the professions and healthcare governance

The public sector is facing turbulent times and this also challenges the health professions who are expected to serve both the interests of the citizens and the cost-containment and austerity policies of governments. This article seeks to explore the changing role of the health professions. I introduce an approach on ‘citizen professionals’ as active players in the policy process and mediators between the state/policymakers and the citizens/patients. The aim is to highlight a transformative potential of professionalism and the connectedness with other sets of governance, like management. Empirical material from a German case study and a comparative European study serve to illustrate the arguments, drawing on policy analysis and secondary sources. The results bring the complexity of transformations and new emergent forms of professionalism into view that cannot be understood in traditional categories of conflict, exclusion and jurisdiction. Exploring the potential of the health professions to creatively respond to new challenges may reveal new opportunities for innovating healthcare policy beyond market and management.

Free Riders, Holdouts, and Public Use: A Tale of Two Externalities

Free riders and holdouts are market failures that potentially impede the completion of otherwise beneficial transactions. The key difference is that the free rider problem is a demand side externality that requires taxation to compel payment for a public good, while the holdout problem is a supply side externality that requires eminent domain to force the sale of land for large scale projects. This paper highlights that distinction between these two problems and uses the resulting insights to clarify the meaning of the public use requirement of the Fifth Amendment takings clause.

Backward-bending of labor supply function and free riders

It seems like that backward- bending of labor supply function can be observed in Central Asian Countries such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. People’s basic needs of life are satisfied and they do not increase labor supplies even if wage increases. It is possible to find some cases in which slowdowns increase, when a manager in a firm enforces penalties for workers have slowdowns. This phenomenon occurs because a worker prefers the position of equilibrium on the labor supply function always in the upper direction. This article explains the increase of free-riders by penalties and how to avoid them.

Development and evaluation of a pedestrian safety training program for elementary school bus riders. Technical summary.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Development and evaluation of a pedestrian safety training program for elementary school bus riders. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Riders up! /

Lil' ol' red stocking -- Shooting star -- Star of Israel -- When Johnny comes marching home -- The Christmas handicap --Oh, Susanna! -- Mud and ninety-five -- Thoroughbreds -- The king of the Also-rans -- The empty stall.

The shadow of the glen and Riders to the sea;

Mode of access: Internet.

Parthenon, north frieze, block XXXVIII, Procession of the Panathenaic Festival: three riders

Athens, Greece; marble

The Garden of Earthly Delights Triptych, interior, center panel, upper right corner, pink tower, army of knight-mermen, nude riders

Hieronymus Bosch; grisaille, oil on wood

The Garden of Earthly Delights Triptych, interior, center panel, pink tower, army of knight mermen, and nude riders

Hieronymus Bosch; grisaille, oil on wood

Riders of the silences /

Mode of access: Internet.

Fifty famous rides and riders,

Includes poem: How Rodney rode from Delaware.

Theodore Roosevelt : the pride of the Rough Riders, an ideal American : an example and an inspiration to young men /

Includes index.