Health & Economics (Reupload)
Added 2025-12-02 11:41:31 +0000 UTCHey, it was drawn to my attention that making these little videos members-only on YouTube killed the link for Patrons, so I'm reuploading a few. Many of you may not have seen them - bear in mind they're from years ago, before I showed my face. This one deals with a topic I've long been curious about: how economics is applied to health. It's an area of econ I have a surprising amount of sympathy for.
References (in rough order of appearance)
Arrow's paper: https://web.stanford.edu/~jay/health_class/Readings/Lecture01/arrow.pdf Keegs' explanation of Arrow's paper: https://jacobmkeegan.medium.com/the-ol-arrow-63-4cf053d2dbbc
The Humble Economist (book on health economics): https://www.york.ac.uk/che/publications/books/the-humble-economist/
Comments
The Arrow discussion is really interesting, and I wonder if there’s any work in the same vein on legal services, which seems to have many of the measurement problems of medical services, and then some. Like the fact that the lot of litigation, probably the majority, results in confidential settlements.
Uri Strauss
2025-12-03 13:43:50 +0000 UTC
