The History of Economic Thought: Fifth Edition - Softcover

Roll Of Ipsden K.C.M.G., Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571165532 ISBN 13: 9780571165537

Publisher: Eric Roll, 2002

Synopsis

Revolutionary advances in biomedical research and information systems technology pose new and difficult issues for American health care policy, especially in the context of managed care. Health Care Policy in an Age of New Technologies takes on this challenging array of issues, where the dignity of individual life meets the imperatives of the national-level health care system: the right to die, rationing of care, organ transplants, experiments with human embryos, genetic research, confidentiality of medical records, and other ethical dilemmas.Chapters on a patient's bill of rights, and on medical education and physician training, link the book to policy issues of direct concern to the public and practitioners. Throughout the book, the authors place critical questions in their political, legal, social, economic, and ethical context. Each chapter ends with discussion points, and a multimedia bibliography directs readers to relevant films, documentaries, and case studies.

About this title

Product Description:

This book - now in its fifth edition - contains thoroughly revised chapters dealing with the ideas and writers of the first 200 years of the subject, and has incorporated any significant new material. The later sections dealing with the last 50 years or so have been much expanded and updated in the light of current developments relating particularly to controversies on economic policy. Most recent developments, such as the "new classical macroeconomics", including the theory of rational expectations, have also been taken into account.

About the Author:

Lord Roll was born in Austria and came to England in 1925. After a distinguished academic career he served in the Ministry of Food and the Treasury; in Whitehall, Washington and Paris. He was involved in Lend-Lease, the Marshall Plan, NATO, and the first Brussels negotiations. He ended his Civil Service career as Permanent Under-Secretary of State of the Department of Economic Affairs. Since 1966 he has been active in the City as an investment banker and is now President of the Warburg Group.

About this edition

• Publisher: Eric Roll
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0571165532
• ISBN 13: 9780571165537
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 608