John Mcmillan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3761747 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Mcmillan |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcmillan |
| SIGNATURE | MCMILLAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7507-1861 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 207 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Future of good medical ethics
Medical ethics in China and making tacit publication criteria explicit
Generative AI and medical ethics
Being ethical in difficult times
The wrong word for the job? The ethics of collecting data on ‘race’ in academic publishing
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The unconscious and the nuances of autonomy
Humility
Broadening the debate
Ethics of generative AI
Concise argument
Trust and medical ethics
There will always be debates in medical ethics about whether any particular value can be considered foundational, but there are reasons for thinking that 'trust' is the ground upon which many other important values is built. Sisela Bok remarks
Medical ethics and the climate change emergency
Legitimising values
Some Methodological Issues in Neuroethics
There are some distinct methodological challenges, and possible pitfalls, for neuroethics when it evaluates neuroscientific results and links them to issues such as moral or legal responsibility. Some problems emerge in determining the requirements for responsibility. We will show how philosophical proposals in this area need to interact with legal doctrine and practice. Problems can occur when inferring normative implications from neuroscientifi…
Futility
While the era following the Bland decision in 1993 1 might be thought of as the time when concepts such as 'futility' were placed under pressure and scrutiny, it's an idea that has been debated for at least forty years.In a 1983 JME commentary Bryan Jennett distinguishes three kinds of reason why Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) might be withheld
Less nonsense upon stilts
Bentham’s famous remark was a response to the assertation of natural (or human) rights that did not depend on law or some other foundation for their normative force.1 Whatever we make of that claim, it flags a problem for making and evaluating rights-based arguments in medical ethics. He wasn’t trying to say that rights are all meaningless, nor that we can readily do without them. Rather, it’s an objection to a particular way of asserting rights …
Mature minors and gender dysphoria
Lord Scarman’s judgment about when someone under the age of 16 years should have the right to make their own medical decisions emphasised the decision-making abilities of the particular child. He said: > ...the parental right to determine whether or not their minor child below the age of 16 will have medical treatment terminates if and when the child achieves a sufficient understanding and intelligence to enable him or her to understand fully wha…
Words
When explaining the inadequacy of the words "Cheer him up" to describe the purpose of offering a drink to a murderer, TS Elliot's Sweeney remarks
Covid-19 and justice
John Rawls begins a Theory of Justice with the observation that 'Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought... Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override'1 (p.3). The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in lock-downs, the restriction of liberties, debate about the right to refuse medical treatment and many other changes to the everyday…
Pandemic medical ethics
The COVID-19 pandemic will generate vexing ethical issues for the foreseeable future and many journals will be open to content that is relevant to our collective effort to meet this challenge. While the pandemic is clearly the critical issue of the moment, it’s important that other issues in medical ethics continue to be addressed as well. As can be seen in this issue, the Journal of Medical Ethics (JME) will uphold its commitment to publishing h…
Medical ethics and broadening the context of debate
The Journal of Medical Ethics has published a few papers over recent years that explore the ethical implications of ectogenesis.1–4 It is an as yet undeveloped but theoretically possible method by which a fetus can be gestated outside of the womb, and while the prospects of ‘full’ ectogenesis seem some way off, there are techniques that suggest ‘partial’ ectogenesis could be closer. This issue’s Feature Article considers two of the principal argu…
Articulating future directions of law reform for compulsory mental health admission and treatment in Hong Kong
Trust and Community Treatment Orders
There are conflicting views about the benefits of community treatment orders (CTOs) for people with mental illness. While there is a significant literature on the coercive nature of CTOs, there is less on the impact that CTOs have upon trust. A recovery-oriented approach requires a trusting therapeutic relationship and the coercion inherent in the CTO process may make it difficult for trust to be built, nurtured, and sustained between workers and…
Empowerment, patient centred care and self‐management
Background Patient or person centred care is widely accepted as the philosophy and practice that underpins quality care. An examination of the Australian National Chronic Disease Strategy and literature in the field highlights assumptions about the self‐manager as patient and a focus on clinical settings. Objective and Conclusion This paper considers patient or person centred care in the light of empowerment as it is understood in the health prom…
Agency, ambivalence and authenticity
On the basis of detailed interviews of females aged between fifteen and twenty-six years with a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa we argue that the autonomy of people with this condition may be severely compromised in four ways, particularly in relation to eating and weight. First there are problems with agency. Second, affective components, particularly anxiety, can dominate beliefs such that the grounds for making a decision may differ from the rea…
The Impact of China's Economic Reforms on Agricultural Productivity Growth
This paper presents a method for assessing the relative importance of price increases and strengthened individual incentives due to the introduction of the responsibility system for the post-1978 increase in China's agricultural productivity. Data on post-1978 Chinese agricultural performance suggest that a little over three-quarters of the measured productivity increase is due to payment system changes and the remainder to price increases. The a…
How to Subvert Democracy
Which of the democratic checks and balances-opposition parties, the judiciary, a free press-is the most forceful? Peru has the full set of democratic institutions. In the 1990s, the secret-police chief Montesinos systematically undermined them all with bribes. We quantify the checks using the bribe prices. Montesinos paid a television-channel owner about 100 times what he paid a judge or a politician. One single television channel's bribe was fiv…
China's Evolving Managerial Labor Market
Recent reforms of Chinese state-owned enterprises strengthened a nascent managerial labor market by incorporating incentives suggestive of competitive Western labor markets. Poorly performing firms were more likely to have a new manager selected by auction, to be required to post a higher security deposit, and to be subject to more frequent review of the manager's contract. Managers could be, and were, fired for poor performance. Managerial pay w…
The Central Role of Entrepreneurs in Transition Economies
The authors summarize entrepreneurial patterns in the transition economies, particularly Russia, China, Poland and Vietnam. Markets developed spontaneously in every transition country, but they were built at varying speeds. Some governments impeded the entrepreneurs' self-help by creating conditions that made it hard for informal contracting to work; others created an environment that was conducive to self-help. The spontaneous emergence of marke…
Promoting Transparency in Angola
The story of how the Angolan government was induced to begin creating checks and balances, from a starting point of massive corruption, is a case study in building institutions from scratch. A dysfunctional state has been driven by a combination of domestic and external pressure to take some initial steps toward accountability
Analyzing the Airwaves Auction
The design of the Federal Communications Commission spectrum license auction is a case study in the application of economic theory. Auction theory helped address policy questions such as whether an open auction or a sealed-bid auction should be used; whether the licenses should be auctioned sequentially or simultaneously; whether the government should allow bids for combinations of licenses or accept only single-license bids; how the auction shou…
Selling Spectrum Rights
The design of the FCC spectrum-license auction is a case study in the application of economic theory. Auction theory helped address policy questions such as: Should an open auction or a sealed-bid auction be used? Should the licenses be auctioned sequentially or simultaneously? Should the government allow bids for combinations of licenses, or should it accept only single-license bids? How should the auction be structured to promote the interests …
Welfare Effects in Customs Unions
Journal Article Welfare Effects in Customs Unions Get access John McMillan, John McMillan University of Western Ontario, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ewen McCann Ewen McCann University of Canterbury, New Zealand Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 91, Issue 363, 1 September 1981, Pages 697–703, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232833 Publi…
Agency, ambivalence and authenticity
On the basis of detailed interviews of females aged between fifteen and twenty-six years with a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa we argue that the autonomy of people with this condition may be severely compromised in four ways, particularly in relation to eating and weight. First there are problems with agency. Second, affective components, particularly anxiety, can dominate beliefs such that the grounds for making a decision may differ from the rea…
The return of the Inseminator
Incentives in Government Contracting
Shaping Comparative Advantage
Who Owns Government Information
Welfare Effects in Customs Unions
Journal Article Welfare Effects in Customs Unions Get access John McMillan, John McMillan University of Western Ontario, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ewen McCann Ewen McCann University of Canterbury, New Zealand Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 91, Issue 363, 1 September 1981, Pages 697–703, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232833 Publi…
Shaping Comparative Advantage
The Impact of China's Economic Reforms on Agricultural Productivity Growth
This paper presents a method for assessing the relative importance of price increases and strengthened individual incentives due to the introduction of the responsibility system for the post-1978 increase in China's agricultural productivity. Data on post-1978 Chinese agricultural performance suggest that a little over three-quarters of the measured productivity increase is due to payment system changes and the remainder to price increases. The a…
Incentives in Government Contracting
How to Reform a Planned Economy
JOHN MCMILLAN, BARRY NAUGHTON; HOW TO REFORM A PLANNED ECONOMY: LESSONS FROM CHINA, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 8, Issue 1, 1 March 1992, Page
Autonomy and Incentives in Chinese State Enterprises
When the responsibility for output decisions was shifted from the state to the firm, and when firms were allowed to retain more of their profits, managers of Chinese state-owned enterprises strengthened workers' incentives. The managers paid more in bonuses and hired more workers on fixed-term contracts. The new incentives were effective: productivity increased with increases in bonus payments and in contract workers. The increase in autonomy rai…
Political freedom and the response to economic incentives
Selling Spectrum Rights
The design of the FCC spectrum-license auction is a case study in the application of economic theory. Auction theory helped address policy questions such as: Should an open auction or a sealed-bid auction be used? Should the licenses be auctioned sequentially or simultaneously? Should the government allow bids for combinations of licenses, or should it accept only single-license bids? How should the auction be structured to promote the interests …
China's Evolving Managerial Labor Market
Recent reforms of Chinese state-owned enterprises strengthened a nascent managerial labor market by incorporating incentives suggestive of competitive Western labor markets. Poorly performing firms were more likely to have a new manager selected by auction, to be required to post a higher security deposit, and to be subject to more frequent review of the manager's contract. Managers could be, and were, fired for poor performance. Managerial pay w…
Analyzing the Airwaves Auction
The design of the Federal Communications Commission spectrum license auction is a case study in the application of economic theory. Auction theory helped address policy questions such as whether an open auction or a sealed-bid auction should be used; whether the licenses should be auctioned sequentially or simultaneously; whether the government should allow bids for combinations of licenses or accept only single-license bids; how the auction shou…
Interfirm Relationships and Informal Credit in Vietnam
Trading relations in Vietnam's emerging private sector are shaped by two market frictions: the difficulty of locating trading partners and the absence of legal enforcement of contracts. Examining relational contracting, we find that a firm trusts its customer enough to offer credit when the customer finds it hard to locate an alternative supplier. A longer duration of trading relationship is associated with larger credit, as is prior information …
The Role of Administrative Review Bodies – A Commentary
Consciousness and Intentionality (Advances in Consciousness Research)
Consciousness and Intentionality
Is there an internal relationship between consciousness and intentionality? Can mental content be described in such a way so as to avoid dualism? What is the influence of social context upon consciousness, conceptions of self and mental content? This book considers questions such as these and argues for a conception of consciousness, mental content and intentionality that is anti-Cartesian in its major tenets. Focusing upon the rule governed natu…
Consciousness and society
Property Rights and Finance
Which is the tighter constraint on private sector investment: weak property rights or limited access to external finance? From a survey of new firms in post-communist countries, we find that weak property rights discourage firms from reinvesting their profits, even when bank loans are available. Where property rights are relatively strong, firms reinvest their profits; where they are relatively weak, entrepreneurs do not want to invest from retai…
Sex Selection in the United Kingdom
The British have taken a comprehensive approach to regulating reproductive medicine. A loophole in the current law leaves some cases of sex selection uncovered; if that loophole were closed, however, the law is robust enough to address the concerns about sex selection while permitting it in many cases
The Central Role of Entrepreneurs in Transition Economies
The authors summarize entrepreneurial patterns in the transition economies, particularly Russia, China, Poland and Vietnam. Markets developed spontaneously in every transition country, but they were built at varying speeds. Some governments impeded the entrepreneurs' self-help by creating conditions that made it hard for informal contracting to work; others created an environment that was conducive to self-help. The spontaneous emergence of marke…
Is corporate money bad for bioethics
How to Subvert Democracy
Which of the democratic checks and balances-opposition parties, the judiciary, a free press-is the most forceful? Peru has the full set of democratic institutions. In the 1990s, the secret-police chief Montesinos systematically undermined them all with bribes. We quantify the checks using the bribe prices. Montesinos paid a television-channel owner about 100 times what he paid a judge or a politician. One single television channel's bribe was fiv…
Promoting Transparency in Angola
The story of how the Angolan government was induced to begin creating checks and balances, from a starting point of massive corruption, is a case study in building institutions from scratch. A dysfunctional state has been driven by a combination of domestic and external pressure to take some initial steps toward accountability
The return of the Inseminator
Death and development
Agency, ambivalence and authenticity
On the basis of detailed interviews of females aged between fifteen and twenty-six years with a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa we argue that the autonomy of people with this condition may be severely compromised in four ways, particularly in relation to eating and weight. First there are problems with agency. Second, affective components, particularly anxiety, can dominate beliefs such that the grounds for making a decision may differ from the rea…
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