The implications of the significant and ongoing improvements over time in the functional ability of older people, both in the United States and throughout the world, are enormous for individuals and then more broadly in both social and economic terms. This important book provides an overarching...

<DIV>In recent years, the hospital industry has been undergoing massive change and reorganization with technological innovations and the spread of managed care. As a result, the total number of hospitals countrywide has been declining, and a growing number of not-for-profit hospitals have converted...</div>

<DIV><DIV>Americans are living longer—and staying healthier longer—than ever before. Despite the rapid disappearance of pensions and health care benefits for retirees, older people are healthier and better off than they were twenty years ago. In <I>Health at Older Ages</I>, a distinguished team of economists...</i></div></div>

<DIV>With the United States and other developed nations spending as much as 14 percent of their GDP on medical care, economists and policy analysts are asking what these countries are getting in return. Yet it remains frustrating and difficult to measure the productivity of the medical care service...</div>

The remarkable boom and bust of America’s housing markets during the first decade of the twenty-first century now join the stock market gyrations of the 1920s and the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, doing as much damage to the received wisdom about housing markets and housing policy as...

These seven papers answer the question: How do not-for-profit firms behave in response to a governance system that is not constrained by profit?

Most international measures of corruption rank the United States today as one of the least corrupt nations. However, in the early 1850's this was not the case. How did this change? What happned? This important edited volume tackles this important question.

<DIV>Despite recent corporate scandals, the United States is among the world’s least corrupt nations. But in the nineteenth century, the degree of fraud and corruption in America approached that of today’s most corrupt developing nations, as municipal governments and robber barons alike found new...</div>