Public Interest 

About: Public Interest is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Public policy & Higher education. It has an ISSN identifier of 0033-3557. Over the lifetime, 396 publications have been published receiving 9761 citations.

The Two Faces of Unionism

Abstract: Our research demonstrates that the view of unions as organizations whose chief function is to raise wages is seriously misleading. For in addition to raising wages, unions have significant non-wage effects which influence diverse aspects of modern industrial life. By providing workers with a voice both at the workplace and in the political arena, unions can and do affect positively the functioning of the economic and social systems. Although our research on the non-wage effects of trade unions is by no means complete and some results will surely change as more evidence becomes available, enough work has been done to yield the broad outlines of a new view of unionism.

Neither for love nor money: why doctors must not kill.

Abstract: These difficult questions, now much diseussed, are in fact very old, indeed as old as the beginnings of Western medieine. According to an ancient Greek myth, the goddess Athena procured two powerful drugs in the form of blood taken from the Gorgon Medusa, the blood drawn from her left side providing protection against death, that from her right side a deadly poison. According to one version of the myth, Athena gave to Aselepius, the revered founder of medicine, vials of both drugs; according to the other version, she gave him only the life-preserving drug, reserving the power of destruction for herself. There is force in both aeeounts: the first attests to