November 8, 2011

Financing Long-Term Care in Europe Institutions, Markets and Models

Editors: Joan Costa-Font and Christophe Courbage
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 978-0-415-27137-0

List Price: £65.00

Publication Date: 08 Nov 2011
Binding: Hardback
Pages: 360

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• Joan Costa-Font Senior Lecturer in Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK, where he is also Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics. He edits the journal Applied Economics, Perspective and Policy and is author of articles in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, The Journal of the European Economic Association, Health Economics, Economic Policy among other journals.

• Christophe Courbage Research Director at The Geneva Association (International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics), Switzerland. Christophe is also Deputy Editor of The Geneva Papers. His publications comprise several books including The Economics of New Health Technology, and articles in journals such as Economic Theory, Health Economics, Theory and Decision.

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November 8, 2011: Text Book

July 15, 2011

Who Shall Live? Health, Economics and Social Choice

Author: Victor R Fuchs
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
ISBN: 978-981-4354-87-5

List Price: US$70 / £46 (US$42 / £27 pbk)

Publication Date: Jul 2011
Binding: Hardcover or Paperback
Pages: 388 pages

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July 15, 2011: Economic Evaluation

February 16, 2011

Credit crunch health care: How economics can save our publicly-funded health services

Author: Cam Donaldson
Publisher: The Policy Press
ISBN: 9781847427526

List Price: £16.99

Publication Date: 16 Feb 2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160 pages

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Cam Donaldson holds the Yunus Chair in Social Business and Health at Glasgow Caledonian University. From 2002-10, he held the Health Foundation Chair in Health Economics at Newcastle University, where he was founding director of the Institute of Health and Society and professor in the Newcastle University Business School. He held the Svare Chair in Health Economics at the University of Calgary from 1998-2002, having first become a professor of health economics in 1996 while at the Health Economics Research Unit at the University of Aberdeen.

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February 16, 2011: Economic Evaluation

January 15, 2011

Conflicts of Interest and the Future of Medicine The United States, France, and Japan

Author: Marc A. Rodwin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN13: 978-0-19-975548-6
ISBN10: 0-19-975548-5

List Price: $29.95 (01)

Publication Date: Jan 2011
Binding: Hardback
Pages: 392 pages

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Marc A. Rodwin is Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School. He is the author of Medicine, Money amd Morals: Physicians’ Conflicts of Interest (OUP 1993) and numerous articles on health law, ethics, politics and policy. Rodwin has been a research scholar at Tokyo University Law School and the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique in France. He has testified before Congress, advised consumer groups, and lectured in several countries.

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January 15, 2011: Policy

May 19, 2010

Challenging Health Economics

Author: Gavin Mooney
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 978-0-19-923597-1

List Price: £37.00

Publication Date: 22 January 2009
Binding: Hardback
Pages: 272 pages

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Gavin Mooney, Professor of Health Economics, Curtin University and Visiting Professor, Aarhus University and the University of Cape Town

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May 19, 2010: Policy