Preface Section I. Foundations "The Evolution of the Post-Staggers Rail Industry and Rail Policy" by Mark Burton and Paul Hitchcock "Economic Foundations for 21st Century Freight Rail Rate Regulation" by John W. Mayo and Robert D. Willig Section II. Railroads in an Increasingly Interrelated...

Part I: Safety and the industry -- Introduction -- Providing safe products and food safety -- The meat industry -- Part II: Concerns about animal production facilities -- Producing beef, dairy, and pork products -- The production of chickens -- Wild and farm-raised seafood -- The humane...

Introduction -- Entrepreneurship, its origins and recent experience -- Overview of the global aviation industry 1903 to 1945 -- Entrepreneurial aviators -- The earliest days in the United States : the Wright brothers, Glenn H. Curtiss, Allan Lockheed and Glenn L. Martin -- The French connection...

Introduction -- Understanding business preferences, strategies and influence -- Exporting to the world: policy contests in the oil and gas industries -- The war on coal: policy contests in the coal and utility industries -- The rise of renewable power: policy contests in the wind and solar...

Introduction to the Complexity of Health Care. Health Care Services: Difficult to Define, Difficult to Measure. The Unique Role of the Physician. Patients as Challenging Customers. Measuring Returns from Health Care IT Investments. Increasing Complexity of Medicine. Clinical Data Management and...

Introduction -- Grounded dual contingency model of leadership effectiveness -- Creating a caring and safe environment -- Transformation from hidden to visible leadership -- Transformation from inflexible to receptive leadership -- Transformation from intuitive to deliberate leadership --...

part Section I: Pressures for Change -- chapter 1 Access -- chapter 2 Cost -- chapter 3 Quality -- chapter Conclusion to Section I -- chapter Introduction -- chapter 4 Align Incentives via Payment System Design -- chapter 5 Managed Care Organizations, Accountable Care Organizations, and...

The pivotal role of employer paid health insurance -- An alternate universe : life without the tax subsidy -- How to get there from here and also grow the economy -- Who might support or oppose our proposal? -- What else needs fixing? -- Pre-existing conditions and the individual mandate --...