This second edition of Culyer's authoritative Dictionary of Health Economics brings the material up to date and adds large amounts of new information. Some definitions have been revised. There are over 700 new entries. The Dictionary now also contains extensive references to the literature to...

Since the future is unknowable, it is more fruitful to speculate about the way economists will perceive the nature of their subject matter in 2090 than to predict the particular issues that will attract their concern. The dominant neoclassical paradigm will have been replaced by one which...