Every Monday our authors provide a round-up of some of the most recently published peer reviewed articles from the field. We don’t cover everything, or even what’s most important – just a few papers that have interested the author. Visit… Read More »Sam Watson’s journal round-up for 12th February 2018
Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of the venerable medical journal the Lancet, is no stranger to bad economics. In 2012 and 2013, he stoked the ire of economists worldwide with a series of ill-informed tweets. These included gems such as: Economics, second only to… Read More »“Health is bad for you. That’s what many economists believe.” Richard Horton’s anti-economics strikes again.
Every Monday our authors provide a round-up of some of the most recently published peer reviewed articles from the field. We don’t cover everything, or even what’s most important – just a few papers that have interested the author. Visit our Resources… Read More »Chris Sampson’s journal round-up for 11th April 2016
Monday saw the first strike by health service staff in England and Wales for 32 years. This dispute surrounds the refusal of the government to implement a 1% pay rise recommended by the NHS pay review body. The reason for… Read More »Nurses on strike
Last year William Baumol published a book entitled The Cost Disease in which he discussed his theory for why healthcare costs continue to rise as a proportion of GDP, while at the same time manufactured goods get cheaper. This idea… Read More »Diagnosing the cost disease
Shortly after reading William Baumol’s new book ‘The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn’t‘, I thought that its subject matter – rising healthcare costs – may make a good subject for a post. However, John Appleby… Read More »The cost disease
