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Levitt describes his favored subject matter as "questions that are too embarrassing and degrading for other economists to find interesting." The pioneer at using economic methods to explore subjects not normally seen as economic was Levitt's Chicago mentor, Gary Becker, who won a Nobel in 1992 for his work...
Levitt makes for an awfully diffident imperialist. When half of this year's economics Nobel went to a political scientist, he wrote that "the prize is moving toward a Nobel in social science, not a Nobel in economics." But his belief in the power of economic methods remains strong. "For...
“Some of the big issues of our time—economic issues, environmental issues, social issues and health issues—can be impacted by cycling,” he said.
The pay cuts will likely garner some level of popular support and allow the Obama administration to maintain an image of being tough on corporate excess. But they do not represent a long-term solution to a potentially recurring problem. Without long-term and thoughtful policy supporting these pay cuts...
Given the current economic climate, the hospitals will face inevitable fiscal challenges, Nabel said, but these are the same difficulties that hospital presidents across the country must address.