Archive for Arnold Kling
Arnold Kling is the author of Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care, published by the Cato Institute. His most recent books are Unchecked and Unbalanced: How the Discrepancy Between Knowledge and Power Caused the Financial Crisis and Threatens Democracy (Hoover Institution) and (with Nick Schulz) From Poverty to Prosperity: Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities and the Lasting Triumph Over Scarcity (Encounter Books). He blogs at www.econlog.econlib.org.
Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System
Daniel Callahan has written a bracing and exasperating book on health care policy. It is bracing in its realistic assessment of the tradeoffs and dilemmas facing U.S. policymakers, but exasperating in its assessment of the relative merits of using market processes or government intervention to resolve these issues. Callahan, a senior scholar at Yale, makes [...]
29Jun2010 | Arnold Kling | 2 comments | ContinuedHealth Care’s Muddled Incentives
On the topic of health care, what empirical observations are reliable? Unfortunately, many “facts” come freighted with a great deal of ideological baggage. Those skeptical of markets, who favor a large role for government in health care, tend to emphasize statistics that disparage the American healthcare system. For supporters of markets, it is tempting to try to [...]
23Oct2009 | Arnold Kling | 15 comments | Continued-
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