Medicine and the Market or Bank Management and Financial Services

Medicine and the Market: Equity V. Choice

Author: Daniel Callahan

Much has been written about medicine and the market in recent years. This book is the first to include an assessment of market influence in both developed and developing countries, and among the very few that have tried to evaluate the actual health and economic impact of market theory and practices in a wide range of national settings.

Tracing the path that market practices have taken from Adam Smith in the eighteenth century into twenty-first-century health care, Daniel Callahan and Angela A. Wasunna add a fresh dimension: they compare the different approaches taken in the market debate by health care economists, conservative market advocates, and liberal supporters of single-payer or government-regulated systems.

In addition to laying out the market-versus-government struggle around the world -- from Canada and the United States to Western Europe, Latin America, and many African and Asian countries -- they assess the leading market practices, such as competition, physician incentives, and co-payments, for their economic and health efficacy to determine whether they work as advertised.

This timely and necessary book engages new dimensions of a development that has urgent consequences for the delivery of health care worldwide.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction : of money, the market, and medicine	1
1	From Adam Smith to HMOs : the origins of medicine and the market	16
2	A tale of two cultures : Canada and the United States	52
3	The endurance of solidarity : universal health care in western Europe and elsewhere	87
4	The market in developing countries : an ongoing experiment	117
5	The market wild card : pharmaceuticals	183
6	The value of the market : what does the evidence show?	203
7	The future of the market in health care : undercurrents from the past, riptides from the future	247

Books about economics: Paris Sweets or Michael Mina

Bank Management and Financial Services

Author: Peter S Ros

Bank Management and Financial Services is designed to help students master established management principles and to confront the perplexing issues of risk, regulation, technology, and competition that bankers and other financial-service managers see as their greatest challenges for the future. The seventh edition is the most up-to-date discussion of the newest banking and financial-services laws and regulations currently available, encompassing provisions of the new federal consumer bankruptcy rules (the first major changes in the U.S. bankruptcy code in nearly 30 years) as well as the newest rules concerning electronic banking, customer privacy, and the first major reforms in the FDIC insurance system in more than a quarter of a century. Bank Management and Financial Services also remains the most readable and engaging text on the market, with a plethora of real-world examples and information.