Journal of Economic Issues articles

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.
December 1, 2008... According to its advocates, Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) represents an attempt to democratize health care (EBM Working Group 1992; Sackett et al. 1996, see also Oliver and McDaid 2002) by providing both patients and clinicians with better quality, objective information about the performance...

Universal health care and the economics of responsibility.(Report)
December 1, 2008... Nearly a century ago, the American Association for Labor Legislation (AALL) began a campaign for universal health insurance based on the notion that health care is the joint responsibility of employers, workers, and the state (Chasse 1994). At first glance, the current American health care...

The invisible hands behind the student evaluation of teaching: the rise of the new managerial elite in the governance of higher education.
December 1, 2008... The amount of academic research on the Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) is staggering. Perhaps the fascination with SET stems from the very introspective nature of the issue: academics researching themselves. While previous research has grappled with the notion of teaching effectiveness...

The feminist political economy of the rent-seeking society: an investigation of gender inequality and economic growth.
December 1, 2008... The question of why hierarchies evolve and persist is an old one in economics. Neoclassical treatments in what came to be known as the "new institutional economics" explain the evolution of hierarchy in the firm (Coase 1937) and the family (Becker 1991) in terms of their contributions to...

Women as wives, mothers or workers: how welfare eligibility requirements influence women's labor force participation--a case study of Spain--.(Survey)
December 1, 2008... For the last few decades, social policy practitioners and economists have waged a continual, open debate about the amount of responsibility a state can and should have with regard to welfare provision. This debate was largely provoked by the global economic crisis of the late 1970s, which...