Uncertain times : Kenneth Arrow and the changing economics of health care / edited by Peter J. Hammer ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hammer, Peter Joseph.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arrow, Kenneth Joseph, 1921-.

Arrow, Kenneth Joseph.

Medical economics--United States.

Medical economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A new look at Kenneth Arrow's classic study of the economics of health care: is his formulation still relevant 40 years later?

Contents:

Kenneth Arrow and the Changing Economics of Health Care: "Why Arrow? Why Now?" / Peter J. Hammer, Deborah Haas-Wilson, Mark A. Peterson, and William M. Sage

Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care (American Economic Review, 1963) / Kenneth J. Arrow

Part 1: Supply, Demand, and Health Care Competition. General Equilibrium and Marketability in the Health Care Industry / Michael Chernew

Arrow's Concept of the Health Care Consumer: A Forty-Year Retrospective / Frank A. Sloan

Uncertainty and Technological Change in Medicine / Annetine C. Gelijns, Joshua Graff Zivin, and Richard R. Nelson

Human Inputs: The Health Care Workforce and Medical Markets / Richard A. Cooper and Linda H. Aiken

Health Care as a (Big) Business: The Antitrust Response / Clark C. Havighurst

Part 2: Risk, Insurance, and Redistribution. Health Insurance and Market Failure since Arrow / Sherry A. Glied

Can Efficiency in Health Care Be Left to the Market? / Uwe E. Reinhardt

Valuing Charity / Richard Kronick

Medical Service Risk and the Evolution of Provider Compensation Arrangements / Gloria J. Bazzoli

The Role of the Capital Markets in Restructuring Health Care / J.B. Silvers

Part 3: Information, Knowledge, and Medical Markets. Arrow and the Information Market Failure in Health Care: The Changing Content and Sources of Health Care Information / Deborah Haas-Wilson

The End of Asymmetric Information / James C. Robinson

Managing Uncertainty: Intermediate Organizations as Triple Agents / Lawrence Casalino

Moral Hazard vs. Real Hazard: Quality of Care Post-Arrow / Michael L. Millenson

Part 4: Social Norms and Professionalism. Arrow's Analysis of Social Institutions: Entering the Marketplace with Giving Hands? / Peter J. Hammer

The Market for Medical Ethics / M. Gregg Bloche

The Role of Nonprofits in Health Care / Jack Needleman

Arrow on Trust / Mark A. Hall

From Trust to Political Power: Interest Groups, Public Choice, and Health Care / Mark A. Peterson

Regulating Health Care: From Self-Regulation to Self-Regulation? / Peter D. Jacobson

The Lawyerization of Medicine / William M. Sage

Part 5: Response by Professor Arrow. Reflections on the Reflections Kenneth J. Arrow.

Notes:

"Portions of this book originally appeared in the "Journal of health politics, policy, and law"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-06466-9

9786613064660

0-8223-8502-3

OCLC:

262341481