Machine generated contents note: Foreword -- by Uwe E. Reinhardt -- Acknowledgments -- Preface to the Second Edition --1 Introduction -- 1.1 Why Should the Economics of Health Be Reconsidered? -- 1.2 Purpose of the Book -- 1.3 Outline of the Book -- 2 Market Competition -- 2.1 The Traditional...

Acknowledgements -- Background material -- Introduction / Yaniv Hanoch, Andrew J. Barnes, and Thomas Rice -- A brief overview of behavioral economic / Thomas Rice, Yaniv Hanoch, and Andrew J. Barnes -- Shaping health behaviour -- The behavioral economics of tobacco products : innovations in...

"The fifth edition of The Economics of Health Reconsidered continues to challenge the reliance on market forces to address health policy issues, and it argues instead for the value of government intervention. By critically examining economic theory as applied to the healthcare sector, the...