Cover

Copyright

Contents

Editors’ Foreword

Acknowledgments

Section A On Economics and Economists

Foreword

I Slouching Toward Chicago: Regulatory Reform as Revealed Religion (1982)

2 Toward a Healthier Economics: Reflections on Ken Bassett’s Problem (1998)

3 The TSX Gives a Short Course in Health Economics: It’s the Prices, Stupid! (2010)

4 A New Paradigm for Health Economics? We Already Have Three! (2012)

Further Reading

Section B Health Care Financing

Foreword

5 Hang Together, or Hang Separately: The Viability of a Universal Health Care System in an Aging Society (1987)

6 User Fees for Health Care: Why a Bad Idea Keeps Coming Back (Or, What’s Health Got to Do With It?) (1995)

7 Going for the Gold: The Redistributive Agenda behind Market-Based Health Care Reform (1997)

8 Modelling the Benefits of Insurance: Here Comes the Insurance Salesman (2004)

Further Reading

Section C Health Care Policy

Foreword

9 Supplier-Induced Demand: Some Empirical Evidence and Implications (1974)

10 Incomplete Vertical Integration in the Health Care Industry: Pseudomarkets and Pseudopolicies (1983)

11 Aging and Health Care Utilization: New Evidence on Old Fallacies (1987)

12 Political Wolves and Economic Sheep: The Sustainability of Public Health Insurance in Canada (2005)

Further Reading

Section D Population Health

Foreword

13 Producing Health, Consuming Health Care

14 Introduction (Chapter 1) to the Book Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not? (1994)

15 Health, Hierarchy, and Hominids: Biological Correlates of the Socioeconomic Gradient in Health (1996)

16 What, Me Worry? The Second Annual Gideon Rosenbluth Memorial Lecture (2013)

Further Reading

Editors’ Postscript

Contributors

Index