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  • Overcharged

    Why Americans Pay Too Much for Health Care

    by Charles Silver, David A. Hyman ...
    "Overcharged is just what the doctor ordered." —Jeffrey S. Flier, MD, former dean, Harvard Medical SchoolWhy is America's health care system so expensive? Why do hospitalized patients receive bills laden with inflated charges that com out of the blue from out-of-network providers or demands for services that weren't delivered? Why do we pay $600 for EpiPens that contain a dollar's worth of ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Medical Malpractice Litigation

    How It Works, Why Tort Reform Hasn't Helped

    by Bernard S. Black, David A. Hyman, Myungho Paik, William M. Sage, Charles Silver ...
    "Drawing on an unusually rich trove of data, the authors have refuted more politically convenient myths in one book than most academics do in a lifetime."—Nicholas Bagley, professor of law, University of Michigan Law School"Synthesizing decades of their own and others’ research on medical liability, the authors unravel what we know and don’t know about our medical malpractice system, why neither ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

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    The Economics of Manipulation and Deception

    by George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller ...
    Why the free-market system encourages so much trickery even as it creates so much goodEver since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has been that free markets provide us with material well-being, as if by an invisible hand. In Phishing for Phools, Nobel Prize–winning economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller deliver a fundamental challenge to this insight, arguing that markets harm ... Read more

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  • An American Sickness

    How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

    by Elisabeth Rosenthal ...
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  • Getting Off Track

    How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis

    by John B. Taylor ...
    In this concise volume, leading economist John B. Taylor offers empirical research to explain what caused the current financial crisis, what prolonged it, and what dramatically worsened it more than a year after it began. The evidence he presents strongly suggests that specific government actions and interventions are largely to blame and that any future government interventions must be based on a ... Read more

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  • The Truth About the Drug Companies

    How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It

    by Marcia Angell ...
    During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast marketing machines with unprecedented control over their own fortunes. She saw them gain nearly limitless ... Read more

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  • The Price We Pay

    What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It

    by Marty Makary ...
    New York Times bestsellerBusiness Book of the Year**--Association of Business Journalists**From the New York Times bestselling author comes an eye-opening, urgent look at America's broken health care system--and the people who are saving it**--now with a new Afterword by the author.**"A must-read for every American." --Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, FORBESOne in fiv... ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law

    Income Tax Law

    by Edward McCaffery ...
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    In The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Income Tax Law, Edward McCaffery presents an accessible introduction to the major topics in the field of federal income taxation, such as income, deductions, and recognition of gains and losses. After discussing central rules and doctrines individually, Edward McCaffery offers a very sophisticated yet clear explanation of the interplay among them, carefully ... Read more

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  • The Truth About Getting Sick in America

    The Real Problems with Health Care and What We Can Do

    by Tim Johnson ...
    In today’s world, there are many hot-button topics that generate equal parts debate and confusion. At the top of that list is healthcare. For most Americans, finding out “the truth” about current problems or possible fixes is virtually impossible amidst all the emotionally charged rhetoric. Dr. Tim Johnson has been reporting on health matters for ABC since the mid-seventies, but in recent years he ... Read more

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  • Valuing Life

    Humanizing the Regulatory State

    by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    "Clear explanations and concrete examples of how the behavioral orientation in economics can contribute to the world of cost/benefit policy formulation." — ChoiceThe White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) is the United States' regulatory overseer. In Valuing Life, New York Times–bestselling author and legal scholar Cass R. Sunstein draws on his firsthand experience as the ... Read more

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  • Reinventing American Health Care

    How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System

    by Ezekiel J. Emanuel ...
    The definitive story of American health care today -- its causes, consequences, and confusions.In March 2010, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. It was the most extensive reform of America's health care system since at least the creation of Medicare in 1965, and maybe ever. The ACA was controversial and highly political, and the law faced legal challenges reaching all the way to the ... Read more

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  • Insurance and Behavioral Economics

    Improving Decisions in the Most Misunderstood Industry

    by Howard C. Kunreuther, Mark V. Pauly, Stacey McMorrow ...
    This book examines the behavior of individuals at risk and insurance industry decision makers involved in selling, buying and regulation. It compares their actions to those predicted by benchmark models of choice derived from classical economic theory. Where actual choices stray from predictions, the behavior is considered to be anomalous. Howard C. Kunreuther, Mark Pauly and Stacey McMorrow ... Read more

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