1. Functional health and the health stock -- 2. A framework for risk and health policy analysis -- 3. Insurance, moral hazard and adverse selection -- 4. Health policy evaluation -- 5. Health policy in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan : settling down to a model? -- 6. Publicly funded...

Happiness is a private matter and individual pursuit; however, public policy does have an important role and can contribute much through various enabling means. This volume discusses the determinants of happiness and presents case studies of how public policy can help promote happiness.

The Asian crisis of 1997-1998 was a major influence on macroeconomic thinking concerning exchange rate regimes, the functioning of international institutions, such as the IMF and the World Bank, and international contagion of macroeconomic instability from one country to another. Exchange Rate...