UNCERTAINTY AND THE WELFARE ECONOMICS OF MEDICAL CARE
Elsevier eBooksPublished 1 January 1978Open access
Kenneth J. Arrow
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This paper is an exploratory and tentative study of the specific differentia of medical care as the object of normativeconomics. It is contended here, on the basis of comparison of obvious characteristics of the medical-care industry with the norms of welfare economics,
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