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Background The importance of effective leadership for improving patient care and physician well-being is gaining increased attention in medicine. Despite this, few residency programs have formalized education on leadership in medicine. The most effective ways to train graduate medical education (GME) trainees in leadership are unclear. Methods Our large internal medicine residency program implemented a book club to develop leadership skills in residency. Through independent reading of the selected book and resident-led small group discussions, we facilitated dialogue on the challenges of leading effectively. Results A survey-based curricular evaluation demonstrated that 61% of respondents felt that the book club influenced their thoughts about leadership and that 66% of participants would recommend the book club to other residency programs. Lack of time was the main barrier to participation while addition of complementary media or alternative book formats were identified as possible solutions to increase engagement. Conclusions Leadership book clubs are a practical and effective way to teach leadership during residency. More research is needed to identify the best formats for book club discussion and to develop additional tools to foster future physician leaders.

The motion picture industry is obviously highly visible in the literal sense. Further, it is such in the figurative sense in that data relative to the industry abound. However, as in most cases, one must take considerable care in the interpretation of the available data due to the manner in which they are often reported. That is, the data, especially the relevant financial data, tend to be reported in nominal or unadjusted terms, rather than in real terms, i.e. on an unadjusted basis relative to changes in prices. This article examines some of the data commonly reported relative to the motion picture industry over the 2000 - 2016 period (the span of the 21st century in which data are available, and assesses same trends therein, after making appropriate real adjustments to these data. This work is an update of a similar endeavor undertaken by the author for data covering the 1991 - 2001 period.

The United States (US) Premerger Notification program was established by the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 and became operative in late 1978. This Act amended the Clayton Act to reguire the reporting of certain planned transactions to the US Antitrust agencies prior to their consummation. Amendments of 2001 to the threshold reporting reguirements, among other things, lowered the number of proposed transactions that need be reported to the antitrust agencies. This article discusses the various features and changes in the HSR program and examines the record of compliance and effectiveness of the program since its inception.

An ongoing problem in the application of U.S. antitrust law is the delineation of the appropriate product market. Demand and supply substitutability, as measured by the coefficients of cross elasticity of demand and the coefficient of elasticity of supply, respectively, were introduced in the early 1950s as two possible criteria to define product markets. Although the implementation and calculation of both concepts involve similar problems, the courts have been more readily receptive of cross elasticity of demand as a criterion on which to define product markets. Since the author has addressed this issue in a recent work, he confines his attention in the present paper to reviewing and updating the use of the supply substitutability concept as a criterion for product market delineation in U.S. Supreme Court and in the Federal Appeals Courts. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

This article compares the differential economic impacts on the City of Lafayette, Louisiana, of two collegiate football games involving the University of Louisiana-Lafayette (ULL) and two other universities on consecutive Saturdays in September 2009. The first opponent of ULL was an in-state university, and the second was an out-of-state university larger in size than the first opponent and more renowned in collegiate football circles. The article provides pre-game estimates of the economic impact of each contest on the Lafayette economy, as well as the likely post-game effects of the respective games on the economy. The author calculated the economic impacts using RIMS II Multipliers computed by the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the U. S. Department of Commerce. Perhaps, unexpectedly, the game against the smaller, lesser-known opponent yielded a much larger economic impact on the Lafayette economy.

Resale price maintenance (RPM), a form of vertical price fixing is the practice whereby manufacturers of brand-name or trademark goods stipulate and attempt to enforce minimum, maximum, or actual wholesale and retail prices of such goods as they progress through the distribution chain to the final consumers ofsaid products.

Resale price maintenance (RPM), a form of vertical price fixing is the practice whereby manufacturers of brand-name or trademark goods stipulate and attempt to enforce minimum, maximum, or actual wholesale and retail prices of such goods as they progress through the distribution chain to the final consumers of said products.

Resale price maintenance (RPM), a form of vertical price fixing is the practice whereby manufacturers of brand-name or trademark goods stipulate and attempt to enforce minimum, maximum, or actual wholesale and retail prices of such goods as they progress through the distribution chain to the final consumers of said products.

The motion picture industry is obviously highly visible in the literal sense. Further, it is such in the figurative sense in that data relative to the industry abound. However, as in most cases, one must take considerable care in the interpretation of the available data due to the manner in which they are often reported. That is, the data, especially the relevant financial data, tend to be reported in nominal or unadjusted terms, rather than in real terms, i.e. on an unadjusted basis relative to changes in prices. This article examines some of the data commonly reported relative to the motion picture industry over the 2000 –2016 period (the span of the 21st century in which data are available, and assesses same trends therein, after making appropriate real adjustments to these data. This work is an update of a similar endeavor undertaken by the author for data covering the 1991 – 2001 period.

The United States (US) Premerger Notification program was established by the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 and became operative in late 1978. This Act amended the Clayton Act to require the reporting of certain planned transactions to the US Antitrust agencies prior to their consummation. Amendments of 2001 to the threshold reporting requirements, among other things, lowered the number of proposed transactions that need be reported to the antitrust agencies. This article discusses the various features and changes in the HSR program and examines the record of compliance and effectiveness of the program since its inception.