Books in the Handbook of Health Economics series

Covers the developments in health economics, from medical spending growth to the demand for health care, the markets for pharmaceutical products, the medical workforce, and equity in health and health care. This book presents coherent summaries of major subjects and methodologies, marking important advances and revisions.

As a relatively new subdiscipline of economics, health economics has made many contributions to areas of the main discipline, such as insurance economics. This volume provides a survey of the burgeoning literature on the subject of health economics.

Health economics has made or stimulated numerous contributions to various areas of economics: the theory of human capital; the economics of insurance; principal-agent theory; asymmetric information; econometrics; the theory of incomplete markets; and, the foundations of welfare economics. This title surveys the literature in health economics.