Were are we now in british health economics ? Mark Blaug

Health economics took off in 1970 or thereabouts, just after the take-off date for the economics of education. Although early health economics made use of human capital theory as did the economics of education, it soon took a different route inspired by Arrow’s work on medical insurance. The economi...

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Blaug, Mark; University of Exeter, UK
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2005
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Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
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