Countries With Higher Interest Rates Have Higher Inflation
Alan ReynoldsA recent headline exclaimed: “Central Banks Should Raise Rates Sharply or Risk High‐Inflation Era,BIS Warns. ” The Bank for International Settlements is owned by 61 central banks, so they should know better than to equate higher interest rates with lower inflation.Countries with the lowestcentral bank interest rates (below zero) include Switzerland and Japan, according tothe BIS.Those with the highest policy rates include Argentina and Turkey, with rates of 49% and 14% respectively.Should we conclude that Argentina and Turkey are valiantly fighting inflation with high interest rates while Switzerland ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 1, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
The Perils and Promise of Public Nuisance
Leslie Kendrick (University of Virginia), The Perils and Promise of Public Nuisance, Yale L. J. (Forthcoming): Public nuisance has lived many lives. A centuries-old doctrine defined as “an unreasonable interference with a right common to the general public,” it is... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 30, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Universal Remedies, Section 706, and the APA
Ronald M. Levin (Washington University in St. Louis), Mila Sohoni (University of San Diego), Universal Remedies, Section 706, and the APA, Yale J. Reg. Notice& Cmt. Blog (2020): Section 706 of the Administrative Procedure Act provides that a reviewing... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 24, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Biased Science: The Texas and Alabama Measures Criminalizing Medical Treatment for Transgender Children and Adolescents Rely on Inaccurate and Misleading Scientific Claims
Susan Boulware (Yale University), Rebecca Kamody (Yale University), Laura Kuper (University of Texas), Meredithe McNamara (Yale University), Christy Olezeski (Yale University), Nathalie Szilagyi (Yale University), Anne Alstott (Yale University), Biased Science: The Texas and Alabama Measures Criminalizing Medical Treatment for... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 15, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Health AI for Good Rather Than Evil? The Need for a New Regulatory Framework for AI-Based Medical Devices
Sara Gerke (Pennsylvania State University), Health AI for Good Rather Than Evil? The Need for a New Regulatory Framework for AI-Based Medical Devices, 20 Yale J. Health Pol ’y, L.& Ethics 433 (2021): Artificial intelligence (AI), especially its subset machine... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 14, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Inequitable by Design: The Law and Politics of Global COVID-19 Vaccine Access - And a Way Out
Ximena Benavides (Yale University), Inequitable by Design: The Law and Politics of Global COVID-19 Vaccine Access - And a Way Out, 56 U. Mich. J. L. Ref. (2023): COVID-19 vaccine access has been highly inequitable worldwide, with coverage depending largely... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 14, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Young children think that teachers who count out rewards are fairer that those who don ’t
By Matthew Warren
In just the first few years of life, children develop a strong sense of fairness. At 16 months old, toddlers will reward someone who has fairly distributed food or toys between two other people, for example. By two, they tend to share toys equally themselves.
A new study shows that children’s judgements of fairness also take into account the method by which resources have been allocated. Kids as young as four think that a teacher who has counted out cookies for a reward is fairer than one who gives that exact same reward without counting. The research, published in Cognition, suggests that when...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - June 6, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Developmental Source Type: blogs
Health Care Sanctuaries
Medha D. Makhlouf (Pennsylvania State University), Health Care Sanctuaries, 20 Yale J. Health Pol ’y, L.& Ethics 1 (2021): It is increasingly common for noncitizens living in the United States to avoid seeing a doctor or enrolling in publicly funded... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - May 24, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Expanding the List of Protected Grounds within Anti-Discrimination Law in the EU
Sarah Ganty (Yale University), Juan Carlos Benito Sanchez (Independent), Expanding the List of Protected Grounds within Anti-Discrimination Law in the EU, SSRN (2022): Article 19 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union enshrines a list of protected... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - May 19, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Political Science, continued
Now I ' m going to say a bit about politics in the U.S. Elections -- certainly not in the U.S. -- are not machines for turning voters ' policy preferences into representation that produces them. Consider a current and very clear case. Polls consistently find that close to 70% of the electorate does not want Roe v. Wade to be overturned and wants abortion to remain legal. Yes, views about the circumstances under which it should be legal vary, but there is scant support for the bills being pushed through many state legislatures that would ban abortion entirely or allow it only under very narrow conditions. But despite ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 12, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Scrambling the New Sanitationist Synthesis: Civil Liberties and Public Health in the Age of COVID-19
John Fabian Witt (Yale University), Scrambling the New Sanitationist Synthesis: Civil Liberties and Public Health in the Age of COVID-19, U. Chi. Legal Forum (2021): The late decades of the 20th century witnessed a new sanitationism in the law of... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - May 11, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Tolerating the Harms of Detention: With and Without COVID-19
Jaimie Meyer (Yale University), Marisol Orihuela (Yale University), Judith Resnik (Yale University), Tolerating the Harms of Detention: With and Without COVID-19, SSRN (2022): What does COVID-19 teach about the lives of people in detention and the obligations of those running... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - May 9, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
We unconsciously pay more attention to someone who has dilated pupils
By Emma Young
How do you know when someone else is paying attention to you? If they’re staring at you intensely, that’s a pretty obvious giveaway. But there are also far subtler signals — such as the size of their pupils.
As Clara Colombatto and Brian Scholl at Yale University note in a new paper in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, our pupils automatically and uncontrollably dilate when we’re emotionally aroused, working something out, or just attending to something. Pupil size has been used as an objective indicator of all these things in a wealth of recent studies.
But if another person ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - May 4, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Perception Social Source Type: blogs
Achieving Justice for Disabled Parents and Their Children: An Abolitionist Approach
Robyn Powell (Stetson University), Achieving Justice for Disabled Parents and Their Children: An Abolitionist Approach, 33 Yale J. L.& Feminism 35 (2022): The social uprisings following the police killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and many other people of... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - April 1, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The Regulatory Shifting Baseline Syndrome: Vaccines, Generational Amnesia, and the Shifting Perception of Risk in Public Law Regimes
Robin Kundis Craig (USC), Regulatory Shifting Baseline Syndrome: Vaccines, Generational Amnesia, and the Shifting Perception of Risk in Public Law Regimes, 21 Yale J. Health Pol ’y Ethics (forthcoming, summer 2022): Vaccination mandates have been controversial since long before COVID-19, but... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 30, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
