Social choices, about expenditures on government programs, or about public policy more broadly, or indeed from any conceivable set of alternatives, are determined by politics. This book is a collection of essays that tie together the fields spanned by Jeffrey S. Banks' research on this subject....

U.S. health system performance : an international perspective -- Is profit-seeking inappropriate in health care? -- Competition in hospital markets : the case of specialty hospitals -- Competition in health insurance markets : the case of managed care reform -- Competition in pharmaceutical...

A primer on regulation -- Explaining regulatory change -- A brief history of contemporary regulatory politics -- Regulating market competition -- Regulating financial intermediaries -- Regulating telecommunications -- Environmental protection regulation -- Regulating the workplace -- Regulating...