August 17, 2004

Price Discrimination Or Tournaments Or What? How Can Drug Research Be Funded

Michael Giberson Over at Economic Principals, David Warsh writes about current debates in drug pricing, and raises some excellent questions for researchers interested in economic systems design. About half of Warsh’s column concerns differential pricing, and half concerns alternative ways to organize and pay for research. The problem with differential pricing, what economists typically call …

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Cotc For This Week

Lynne Kiesling This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is at The Frozen North. I’ve been a bad citizen this summer, what with work and house and all, and have not been contributing and advertising as much as I should be. Not surprisingly, I particularly liked Tim Worstall’s post on oil prices. Tim also gives a …

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