What causes people to respond to incentives? From a simplistic view we may say that people just pick the option with the highest utility; everybody has a price, right? Financial incentives are often used to… Read More »The impact of incentives
Ben Goldacre, author of Bad Science, recently published an article online for his Guardian column discussing hospital level variation in Bowel Cancer mortality. In this article he discusses how journalists often see patterns in random… Read More »Cause and effect: Hospital choice and rankings
Many have spoken out in opposition to the bill. Some have spoken out in support. As health economists most of us have done little of either. I recently wrote to health economists asking them to… Read More »Health and Social Care Bill 2011
Credit Crunch Health Care – How economics can save our publicly funded health services Paperback, 160 pages, ISBN: 9781847427526, published 16 February 2011 Amazon / Google Books / The Policy Press Cam Donaldson has chosen to use his powers of prophecy for… Read More »Review: Credit Crunch Health Care (Cam Donaldson)