Opinions

According to a US study, young single mothers are most vulnerable to health problems. The study tracked tobacco and alcohol consumption and other general health factors in women grouped according to their reproductive, family and career choices

GDP alone does not provide a genuine measurement of quality of life. In Italy, CNEL and ISTAT are jointly working on a multidimensional indicator of sustainable welfare that may enable decision makers to better understand issues of welfare and sustainability

Targeted killings and actions outside the battlefield distort the concept of legitimate self-defense and force the Obama administration to discuss the legal limits to the use of military force. If the US can strike anywhere, what stops other countries?

Understanding how trust operates in the mind of a customer. It is a new asset that companies can no longer afford to lose, because regaining it is no small matter. It is also an important tool for long-term management of uncertainties in changing markets

The neuroeconomics of attention: managers and entrepreneurs activate different parts of the brain in response to the same stimulus. With the unlikely collaboration of a row of one-armed bandits, reaction patterns to multiple input began to emerge

US health care reform: eighteen months after being approved by Congress, the big challenge lies in its implementation. To be fully in place by 2018, it needs help from the Supreme Court, collaboration from the single States and Obama's re-election