Archive for Melvyn Krauss
Saving Money by Taking Lives
Two weeks ago, my 91-year-old mother-in-law died in a nursing home in Amsterdam. But although she had been suffering for nine months from a paralysis that prevented her from speaking and eventually from swallowing her food, she did not die a natural death from lack of nourishment. She died because the doctors decided that her [...]
1Feb2000 | Melvyn Krauss | 0 comments | Continued-
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Creating Jobs versus Creating Value
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