By reviewing different voting systems, their original intents, and their deficits, 'Making Better Choices' argues for a systems engineering approach to making better collective choices in society. Written by an economist and an engineer, this groundbreaking work draws from insig…
"Our collective decisions usually revolve around three basic factors. First, how many people are affected by the decision. Second, how many people make the decision. Third, how important is the decision both to the makers and recipients of the decisions"--
The pivotal role of employer paid health insurance -- An alternate universe : life without the tax subsidy -- How to get there from here and also grow the economy -- Who might support or oppose our proposal? -- What else needs fixing? -- Pre-existing conditions and the individua…
"In this book, Phelps and Parente explore the US health care system and set out the case for its reform. They trace the foundations of today's system, and show how distortions in the incentives facing participants in the health care market could be corrected in order to achieve …
Ranking vaccines: a prioritization software tool
by National Center for Biotechnology Information (É.-U.), Phelps, Charles E., Madhavan, Guruprasad, Rappuoli, Rino, Martinez, Rose Marie, Sangha, Kinpritma, Fryback, Dennis G., King, Lonnie, Institute of Medicine (États-Unis)., Committee on Identifying and Prioritizing New Preventive Vaccines for Development
Can we really use economic thinking to understand our health care system? Health Economics, now in its sixth edition, not only shows how this is done, but also provides the tools to analyze the economic behavior of patients and providers in health care markets.
