…about policy effectiveness—or if they do still at some level care about policy effectiveness, it is the effectiveness of the policies they will be able to work for two decades…

How can deployment of a Sars Cov2 vaccine be speeded up ? One important step is to make a lot of candidate vaccines while testing for effectiveness. Usually, there is…

…approval process and presented its data to a FDA advisory committee “touting its near-perfect effectiveness in preventing pregnancy and its high levels of satisfaction among women.” Later studies challenged those…

…is 75%, which actually slightly above the estimate of effectiveness of two doses in the phase III trial (62%). Second, the estimated effectiveness of two doses 3 months apart is…

…mechanistic plausibility than empirical studies of policy effectiveness.  It is true that the WHO report recommended against contact tracing and quarantine of exposed individuals, despite some low-quality evidence of effectiveness,…

…of Bowie’s oeuvre had provided a level of patronage that’s inconceivable for a musician of Bowie’s bent today…he spent the Nineties as a free agent, jumping from label to label,…

…high cost of American health care. I begin by explaining the origin and meaning of the “single payer” label. I will then describe the two defects in S 1129 in…

…protects the public from food-borne illnesses. It issues nutritional advice and drug labeling guidelines. It polices false medical claims on packaging and in advertisements. It safeguards about one in every…

…of how to do comparative economics.  But while writing this paper we got distracted by certain foundational issues that we, authors or one of the most widely used comparative economics…

…comparative advantage “…does not describe a modern industrial economy. Comparative advantage is really created, not discovered and based on who invests in what.” He cites semiconductor manufacturing as an example…