"This book is designed for a one-semester issues-based general education economics course, and its purpose is to interest the nonbusiness, noneconomics major in what the discipline of economics can do. Students of the "issues approach" will master the basic economic theory necessary to explore a...

In previous papers (Guell, R. and Fischbaum, M. The Milbank Quarterly 1995; <B>73</B>: 2 and Applied Economics Letters in press), we established that the allocative inefficiency in the prescription drug industry is so pervasive that some remedy is warranted. In the first paper, we estimated a lower bound...</b>