Volume 28 Issue 3 (2010)
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Economics fit for the Queen: a pessimistic assessment of its prospects
The widespread failure of economists to predict the 2008 credit crunch and subsequent Global Financial Crisis led Her Majesty the Queen to ask what had gone wrong. She received very…
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Occult innovations in higher education: corporate magic and the mysteries of managerialism
This study maintains that, as institutions of higher education have converted themselves into corporatised institutions under managerial governance, they have taken on occult qualities. These tendencies are analysed in the…
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Psychiatry interacts with contemporary Western views: the innovation and its adverse effects
Economic studies of innovation are relevant to the mental health sector, not just for innovations in more conventional industries, such as telecommunications. We present an economic examination of the impact…
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Web 2.0 is cheap: supply exceeds demand
The aim of this paper is to evaluate, from an economic perspective, the efficiency of Web 2.0. It demonstrates that, because of the non‐monetary nature of Web 2.0, several sources…
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The role and basis of the drug laws
On 30 October 2009, the home secretary in the UK asked David Nutt to resign from his post as chairman of the government’s advisory council on the misuse of drugs.…
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Drugs policy: rhetoric and political reality
Neil McKeganey is the founding director of the Centre for Drug Misuse Research within the University of Glasgow and has directed the research programme of the Centre since 1994. For…