The Settings for Health Care Delivery -- The People Who Provide Health Care -- Medicines, Devices, and Technology -- Government and the Health Care System -- Financing the Health Care System -- Health Care System Performance -- Debates That Have Structured Health Care System Change -- History of...

"1.1 Introduction Taken separately, the contributions of the best-known principals of the early Virginia School of Political Economy - James Buchanan, Gordon Tullock, and Ronald Coase - are monuments of twentieth century economics. Yet despite their longstanding collaborations, significant...

Markets, Planning and the Moral Economy examines the rise of the Progressive movement in the United States during the early decades of the 20th century, particularly the trend toward increased government intervention in the market system that culminated in the establishment of President...

Introduction: prosperity with inequality in the age of globalization -- Widening income and wealth gap in United States -- Rising prosperity and widening inequality in the People's Republic of China -- Democracy, prosperity, and inequality in India -- Prosperity with equality: future directions