…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…

…pricing new medicines. Associated with Value – based pricing are many uncertainties with estimating value, due to different technical approaches of assessment, incomplete evidence, comparison with inefficient practices, and different…

…in 2015. The risk-shifting schemes came to be known as “value-based payment” or “value-based purchasing” (VBP) methods.   Theoretically, VBP improves both elements of “value” (cost and quality) simultaneously. These programs…

…application of machinery to the production of surplus-value implies a contradiction which is immanent in it, since of the two factors of the surplus-value created by a given amount of…

Socially Ambivalent Labour Time II: Theories of Surplus Value, chapter four In chapter four of TSV, Marx discusses two (or possibly three?) aspects of socially necessary labour time: the devaluation of…

…of investors in partnerships to undervalue interests when first putting them into an IRA, under the argument [labelled as “dubious” by Salmon, since all securities represent future income] that partnership…

…Shareholder in comments to Stormy (minor edits for style): While obviously I am biased because Wachovia stole 20% of my equity value on Friday, I do think it’s always fun…

…The First Amendment right to advocate for a particular political candidate or party or political position, using shareholders’ money is hardly a right that logically derives from those shareholders’ own…

…explosion. The explosion wasn’t an accident; it was negligence in the name of cost cutting in the name of maximizing shareholder/investor return. What else mattered? Money always knows best. Instead…

…shareholder-led profit maximization. The issue is really about shareholder interest trumping everybody else’s interest. In the book, I tell the story of McKinsey. McKinsey figures out that a good way…