The Greek crisis in focus: austerity, recession and paths to recovery [PDF]
Christodoulakis, Nicos +3 more
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Searching for safety: Working conditions and policing in a US emergency department
Abstract In the United States, emergency departments aren't supposed to turn anyone away. They are the safety‐net of the safety‐net providing life‐saving care. Yet, what happens to healthcare when conditions are so strained that patients and staff lash out at each other? What happens when the safety net becomes a carceral net?
Fabián Luis C. Fernández
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Integrated early years care and government policy to address child health inequalities: lessons from the UK and international contexts. [PDF]
Blair M.
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Caring for the institution: An ethnography of quality assurance policy in U.S. rural primary care
Abstract Based on mixed‐methods, ethnographic research in a geographically isolated rural medical center in the upper midwestern United States, this paper explores the social implications of healthcare quality assurance policies highly reliant on managerial logics, including measurement and monitoring programs.
Chloe L. Warpinski
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Commentary on "Social protection and the International Monetary Fund: promise versus performance" by Alexander Kentikelenis and Thomas Stubbs. [PDF]
Pfeiffer J.
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Institutional Changes, Effective Demand, and Inequality: A Structuralist Model of Secular Stagnation
ABSTRACT This paper addresses the factors driving economic stagnation and inequality in the US over recent decades. We study a demand‐driven model with joint adjustment of the functional distribution and capacity utilization in the short run, and explore the dynamics of wealth accumulation and labor productivity growth in the long run.
Vinicius Curti Cícero, Daniele Tavani
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Policy frameworks for promoting public hospital development in major economies: implications for China. [PDF]
Shu Y, Li Z, Xie R.
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ABSTRACT The paper examines the financial balances of the US economy. Government is the main borrower and households and the foreign sector the main lenders. Business net lending is minimal. The balances and their underlying transactions contradict the loanable funds theory and its “global savings glut” variation.
Michalis Nikiforos, Lance Taylor
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Addressing Health Inequalities in Greece: A Comprehensive Framework for Socioeconomic Determinants of Health. [PDF]
Triantafyllou C +4 more
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Output Gap Uncertainty, Sovereign Risk Premia and the Contingent Importance of the Bond Vigilantes
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the implications of output gap uncertainty for the conduct of fiscal policy using a small‐scale macroeconomic model with boundedly rational agents. Specifically, agents use an adaptive updating mechanism to approximate the unobservable potential output that suffers, similarly to the Hodrick and Prescott (1997) filter ...
Christian R. Proaño, Jonas Dix
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