Posts about current affairs, as well as updates about the blog itself.
What’s the point in research if nobody is listening? Below is a 3-day time-line of events in the UK that demonstrate hypocrisy, ignorance and a disregard of empirical evidence within the UK Government. 07/03/2011: The Government demonstrates its commitment to translational… Read More »Falling on deaf ears: The government’s disregard for empirical evidence
Science minister David Willetts recently claimed that universities were responsible for picking up the slack in R&D following Pfizer’s run for the hills – in this writer’s opinion the first of many rats* to flee this sinking ship. We need… Read More »Requiem for UK R&D
This month the American Economic Review publishes it’s top 20 articles from its 100 year history. As one might have hoped, we see Kenneth Arrow’s 1963 paper, “Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care“, on the list. Having published… Read More »100 years of the American Economic Review: The top 20 articles
Here we have the first post, of which there will soon be many, that you can read on the brand new Academic Health Economists’ Blog. The Blog has been started because we feel there is something lacking in the current… Read More »Post #1