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      <title>Planning and market regulation: Strengths, weaknesses and interactions in the provision of less inequitable and better quality health care</title>
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      <description>Title: Planning and market regulation: Strengths, weaknesses and interactions in the provision of less inequitable and better quality health care
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Mackintosh, Maureen
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: This paper argues that planned health care provision and market regulation play distinct roles in relation to the effective provision of equitable health care. Governmental planned provision has as a core objective ensuring that the health system is redistributive and that the poor have access to competent care. Market regulation has as its central objective the shaping of the role and behaviour of the private sector within the health system. Management of the health system as a whole, which is a governmental responsibility, therefore requires the integration of planning and regulation in a manner appropriate to each particular context.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Nonstandard labour values</title>
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      <description>Title: Nonstandard labour values
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Wright, Ian
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: The standard definition of labour value assumes that capitalists abstain from consumption during the period of replacement. The nonstandard definition of labour value assumes that capitalists consume. Both the transformation problem and the problem of an invariable measure of value are necessary consequences of standard labour values. In contrast, nonstandard labour values resolve both classical contradictions.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Creating competition? Globalisation and the emergence of new technology producers</title>
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      <description>Title: Creating competition? Globalisation and the emergence of new technology producers
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Athreye, Suma; Cantwell, John
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: This paper studies the emergence of new countries as contributors to technology generation in the world economy and assesses the relationship between this and globalisation (through trade, inward FDI and international migration). It considers two measures of technology generation, viz. a country's share of licensing revenues and of foreign origin patenting in the US, thus covering different phases and aspects of technological catch-up across countries. The paper uses a novel index to track the influence of new countries as technology generators in these datasets and uses time series techniques to understand the causal relationship between globalisation and the emergence of new technology producers. Our findings suggest a role for increasing international direct investment as a factor causing the emergence of new countries with the higher level competitiveness associated with patenting, but not in the recent surge of new countries with the basic capabilities needed to become licensors in the world economy. However, an increase in the international spread of the subsidiary sources of the patenting activity of multinationals appears to follow periods when the world economy becomes less open to trade.</description>
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      <title>Wellbeing over 50: A capabilities approach</title>
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      <description>Title: Wellbeing over 50: A capabilities approach
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Anand, Paul; Thomas, Ranjeeta; Gray, Alastair
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Drawing on the three key relations in the capabilities approach (Sen, 1985) to welfare economics and using panel data from the English Longitudinal Survey of Aging, this paper illustrates how the capabilities approach to welfare economics can be used to understand wellbeing in older age. Specifically, we estimate models of variables related to all three aspects of a person's wellbeing: functionings, happiness and capabilities. Results indicate that the production of activities depends significantly inter alia on education, health and gender; that happiness depends on a wide variety of activities and that there are potentially significant gender inequalities in the constraints facing women compared with men. The paper concludes that the capabilities approach is a workable approach to empirical welfare economics, applicable to older age, and can generate a range of insights about welfare outcomes and their distribution.</description>
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