This paper studies redistributional effects of competition between private and public insurance on health insurance markets based on the example of Germany. Health insurance is provided by a budget-balancing public insurance and a revenue-maximizing private insurance; customers are characterized...

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World paints a dark picture of a future society that deifies scientific progress. In Huxley's "Utopia," science controls individual opportunity and, hence, destiny. Heredity shapes the individual's place in society, so that from the moment of conception, a person's...