Yesterday I began the process of catching up with various odds-and-ends related to health care reform. Here’s some more items worth noting.

One of the items in the previous post considered whether the phrase “Medical Loss Ratio” is appropriate. Paying claims is, after all, the purpose of health insurance. So maybe such spending should be renamed [...]

The past two weeks have seen another episode in the new “culture wars” within economic sociology. I’m referring of course to Zuckerman’s attack on performativity for obscurantism, ontological relativism and theoretical weakness. Over the years, attacks on performativity and actor-network theory have turned into a literature on its own (see this, this and that). Here [...]