The cost disease : why computers get cheaper and health care doesn't
Record details
- ISBN: 9780300179286 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 0300179286 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 9780300198157 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0300198159 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
print
xxi, 249 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. - Publisher: New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, c2012.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-235) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part I: The survivable cost disease. Why health-care costs keep rising ; What causes the cost disease, and will it persist? ; The future has arrived ; Yes, we can afford it ; Dark sides of the disease : terrorism and environmental destruction ; Common misunderstandings of the cost disease : cost versus quality and financial versus "physical" output measures ; The cost disease and global health -- Part 2: Technical aspects of the cost disease. Hybrid industries and the cost disease ; Productivity growth, employment allocation, and the special case of business services -- Part 3: Opportunities for cutting health-care costs. Business services in health care ; Yes, we can cut health-care costs even if we cannot reduce their growth rate -- Conclusions : Where are we headed and what should we do? |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Prices United States Medical care United States Costs College costs United States Health Care Costs United States Cost of Illness United States |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | HB 235 .U6 B38 2012 | 30775305464787 | General Collection | Available | - |
Author Notes
The Cost Disease : Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't
William Jack Baumol was born in the South Bronx, New York on February 22, 1922. He served in the Army during World War II and got a job at the Agriculture Department, where he worked on allocating grain supplies to starving countries. He graduated from City College and enrolled in the London School of Economics in 1947, after initially being rejected. Less than six weeks after school started, he was hired to become a member of the faculty. He taught at Princeton University from 1949 until 1970 and then taught at New York University from 1971 until his retirement in 2014. As an economist, he identified Baumol's cost disease, which explains why the cost of services, like haircuts and college educations, rises faster than the cost of goods, like T-shirts. He published dozens of books, hundreds of papers, and several congressional testimonies on entrepreneurs, environmental policy, corporate finance, stock sales, the economics of Broadway theaters, inflation, and competition and monopolies. He died on May 4, 2017 at the age of 95. (Bowker Author Biography)