An undisciplined economist : Robert G. Evans on health economics, health care policy, and population health / edited by Morris L Barer, Greg L. Stoddart, Kimberlyn M. McGrail, and Chris B. McLeod.

"For the past four decades Robert Evans has been Canada's foremost health policy analyst and commentator, in the process playing a leadership role in the development of both health economics and population health at home and internationally. In this book the editors have assembled sixteen...

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Main Author: Evans, Robert G., 1942- (Author, honouree.)
Contributors: Barer, Morris Lionel, 1951- (Editor), Stoddart, Gregory Lloyd, 1948- (Editor), McGrail, Kimberlyn, 1966- (Editor), McLeod, Christopher B (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016.
Series:Carleton library series ; 237.
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Genre/Form:Electronic books.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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).