Publications

This paper is the first part of a publication series under the banner of our initiative CEE Ahead: A vision for sustainable healthcare. CEE Ahead aims to put forward a new vision for healthcare in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).

The paper examines the transformation and reforms of Central and Eastern European (CEE) health care systems following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Taking the examples of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Romania it sketches the major success stories but also examines the missed opportunities and major backlashes against these reforms.

This edition of Know IP contains the following articles:

• Commentary – Land, knowledge and the space in between – is there a distinction between property rights and intellectual property rights? – Dr Meir Pugatch and Helen Disney
  
• Topic of the Month – More Italian than the Italians? Geographical indications and Parmesan – Savvas Parselias
  
• Experts’ Corner – Sittin’ in the dock with eBay – Benjamin May
  
• Views – The IP challenges of Web 2.0 – Gulya Isyanova
  
• Newsflashes – Top stories in the world of IP and Competition

This ninth edition of Climate of Opinion focuses on technology transfer and contains the following articles:

• Commentary – Arrested development: why tech transfer can be done better – Paul Domjan
  
• Can a better-informed technology transfer of renewable energy be achieved for developing countries? – Dr Judith Alazraque Cherni
  
• Climate change technologies: the new IP battleground – Helen Davison
  
• Publication – Carbon Scenarios: Blue Sky Thinking for a Green Future – Paul Domjan and Gulya Isyanova
  
• Microclimates – Top stories in energy and environment

This summer edition of the Eye on Europe focuses on the challenges and prospect of Turkey accession to the EU. This edition also includes a review of Johnny Munkhammar`s new book The Guide to Reform, four think tank profiles and a look back at the first Annual Stockholm Network Golden Umbrella Think Tank Awards.

The Stockholm Network`s Carbon Scenarios describe different possible futures that result from the differentiated substance and implementation of possible climate policies. We hope that our 3 scenarios – Kyoto Plus, Agree & Ignore, and Step Change – will be a simple yet powerful tool for discussing the complexity of climate change policy with a variety of stakeholders. These scenarios enable thinking about how far climate policies could take us, at what cost, how global energy markets would evolve in response and how effective these policies will be in addressing the challenges of climate change.

Dans ce numéro, nous abordons les sujets suivants :

• Play it again, Sam ! La santé et la course à la Maison Blanche – David Torstensson

• Un panorama du secteur de santé américain – Grace-Marie Turner

• Le point de vue du Hudson Institute – Catherine M. Fisher

• La médecine socialisée en Europe, et la médecine libérale aux Etats-Unis ? – Kristian Niemietz

• Des coûts plus faibles par une couverture plus large, ou une couverture plus large grâce aux coûts plus faibles ? – David B. Kendall contre David Freddoso

• ‘Sicko’ de Michael Moore – Kristian Niemietz

• Publications et événements du Stockholm Network

En tant que ministre du Travail, José Piñera fut l`architecte de la réforme des retraites au Chili (1980), fondée sur un système de capitalisation et des comptes épargne-retraite individuels, et de l`introduction d`un régime privé d`assurance-maladie. Il fut l`auteur du code du Travail de 1979 qui a réintroduit la démocratie syndicale et des négociations collectives décentralisées.

Depuis 1994, il est entièrement dédié à la diffusion au niveau mondial du système de comptes épargne-retraite en tant que président-fondateur de l`International Center for Pension Reform (www.pensionreform.org). Il est l`auteur de huit livres et de nombreux articles et intervient régulièrement dans les médias à travers le monde. Il est titulaire d`un doctorat en économie de l`Université de Harvard.

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A comprehensive account of the Stockholm Network`s activties, publications, sponsors and supporters, membership and achievements.

This edition Gesundheit! contains the following articles:

• Play it again, Sam! Health care and the race to the White House – David Torstensson

• A profile of the American health sector – Grace-Marie Turner

• A view from the Hudson Institute – Catherine M. Fisher

• Socialised medicine in Europe, free market health care in America? – Kristian Niemietz

• Lower costs through higher coverage, or higher coverage through lower costs? – David B. Kendall vs. David Freddoso

• Michael Moore’s Sicko – Kristian Niemietz

• New initiatives and publications

The State of the Union tracks reform across all 27 EU countries, with each chapter contributed by a regional expert from our network of Europe`s most influential think tanks and brightest policymakers and thinkers.

In the wake of expansion and increasing levels of both economic and political integration, this publication seeks to track the progress of market oriented reform in each EU member state. Each chapter tackles this challenge in different ways; many authors have zoomed in on one area of public policy to illustrate the successes and failures of reform in their home country: healthcare, for example, or tax.

The expansion of the Stockholm Network`s own work and the spread of its affiliated network of think tanks illustrates the rise of free market economics and liberal politics across the continent. Indeed, the tables in Europe have somewhat turned. New hope is now arising from many of the economies in Central and Eastern Europe. Their experiences since the fall of the Berlin Wall and their desire to move away from a top-down central state have led to them experiencing huge economic growth and prosperity. Now they are in many cases leading the way for others to follow with brave, if not always popular efforts to tackle healthcare and pensions and the widespread adoption of the controversial flat tax.

The message from this publication is clear: that reform is progressing at a rapid rate in Europe, and that improved public services and economic growth means that when it comes to well executed market reforms, the results speak for themselves.