Much of the implicit rationing said to characterise British health care occurs as doctors decide what resources to allocate to individual patients. This paper examines this process using data from case studies of selection of patients for cardiac surgery and admission to a specialist...

Institutional analysis offers a promising opportunity for theoretical cross-fertilization between economics and sociology. Neo-institutional economics argues that organizations gravitate towards common forms of economic organization (markets, hierarchies, or hybrid forms) primarily to minimize...

Purpose: This paper aims to identify factors influencing the likelihood of consumers trying muscadine wines and among those who have tried them, willingness to pay (WTP) for an in-state produced muscadine wine. Design/methodology/approach: The study uses a 2015 survey of wine consumers residing...