An Appreciation of Michael Grossman

Victor Fuchs

Chapter 48 in Health Economics and Policy:Selected Writings by Victor Fuchs, 2018, pp 603-604 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: I am most grateful for this opportunity to add my voice to the many that will honor Mike Grossman on the 30th anniversary of the publication of his seminal monograph, The Demand for Health: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation. As one who was “present at the creation,” I have special memories and feelings about Mike and his career, a few of which I would like to share with you in this brief tribute. As Paul Samuelson has written, “The immediacy of experience while it is happening—the contrast with what went before and what will happen later — is something which, if you don’t have it there is no way you can get it.” (Paul A. Samuelson, “Has Economic Science Improved the System?” in Winthrop Knowlton and Richard Zeckhauser (eds.), American Society: Public and Private Responsibilities, Ballinger Publishing Company, Cambridge, MA 1986, p. 300.)…

Keywords: Health; Medical Care; Health Policy; Economics; Health Care Reform; Health Insurance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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