An institutional and evolutionary perspective on health economics.

摘要: Neoclassical theoretical approaches dominate modern health economics. However, the peculiarities of healthcare provision are so unusual that neoclassical theory is especially unsuited to area. Even mainstream economists often abandon Paretian welfare considerations focus on needs instead. Problems relating uncertainty and externalities also widely acknowledged. This article shows there additional important pecularities relatively neglected in literature. Some these concern needs: while itself a universal need, for largely involuntary, varied idiosyncratic. These issues have consequences planning systems extent transaction costs any market-based system. factors, combined with inherent dynamism capabilities, make institutional evolutionary suitable