This month the American Economic Review publishes it’s top 20 articles from its 100 year history. As one might have hoped, we see Kenneth Arrow’s 1963 paper, “Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care“, on the list. Having published… Read More »100 years of the American Economic Review: The top 20 articles
The UK government recently announced plans to “measure happiness” in the country, at an apparent cost of £2 million. The Prime Minister’s argument for this being that GDP is too crude a measure for the achievements of a nation or,… Read More »Satisfaction with life: The UK government’s bid to measure happiness
Here we have the first post, of which there will soon be many, that you can read on the brand new Academic Health Economists’ Blog. The Blog has been started because we feel there is something lacking in the current… Read More »Post #1