Hammer / Haas-Wilson / Sage Uncertain Times

Kenneth Arrow and the Changing Economics of Health Care
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8502-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 372 Seiten

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hammer, Peter J.

Haas-Wilson, Deborah

Sage, William M.

Peterson, Mark A.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Pauly, Mark V.

Fuchs, Victor R.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword / Mark V. Pauly vii

Preface / Victor R. Fuchs xiii

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 xvii

Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care (American Economics Review, 1963) / Kenneth J. Arrow 1

Part 1: Supply, Demand, and Health Care Competition

General Equilibrium and Marketability in the Health Care Industry / Michael Chernew 37

Arrow's Concept of the Health Care Consumer: A Forty-Year Retrospective / Frank A. Sloan 49

Uncertainty and Technological Change in Medicine / Annetine G. Gelijns, Joshua Graff Zivin, and Richard R. Nelson 60

Human Inputs: The Health Care Workforce and Medical Markets / Richard A. Cooper and Linda H. Aiken 71

Health Care as a (Big) Business: The Antitrust Response / Clark C. Havighurst 84

Part 2: Risk, Insurance, and Redistribution

Health Insurance and Market Failure since Arrow / Sherry A. Glied 103

Can Efficiency in Health Care Be Left to the Market? / Uwe E. Reinhardt 111

Valuing Charity / Richard Kronick 134

Medical Service Risk and the Evolution of Provider Compensation Arrangements / Gloria J. Bazzoli 142

The Role of the Capital Markets in Restructuring Health Care / J. B. Silvers 156

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 169

The End of Asymmetric Information / James C. Robinson 181

Managing Uncertainty: Intermediate Organizations as Triple Agents / Lawrence Casalino 189

Moral Hazard vs. Real Hazard: Quality of Care Post-Arrow / Michael L. Millenson 202

Part 4: Social Norms and Professionalism

Arrow's Analysis of Social Institutions: Entering the Marketplace with Giving Hands? / Peter J. Hammer 215

The Market for Medical Ethics / M. Gregg Bloche 230

The Role of Nonprofits in Health Care / Jack Needleman 243

Arrow on Trust / Mark A. Hall 259

From Trust to Political Power: Interest Groups, Public Choice, and Health Care / Mark A. Peterson 272

Regulating Health Care: From Self-Regulation to Self-Regulation? / Peter D. Jacobson 290

The Lawyerization of Medicine / William M. Sage 302

Part 5: Response by Professor Arrow

Reflections on Reflections / Kenneth J. Arrow 321

Contributors 327

Index 335

Über Autor(innen)

Peter J. Hammer is Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan Law School.Deborah Haas-Wilson is Professor of Economics at Smith College.Mark A. Peterson is Professor of Policy Studies and Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Policy and Social Research.William M. Sage is Professor at the Columbia University School of Law.