كتب اقتصاد جديدة Economics

الاحصائي كتب:

Cardiovascular Health Care Economics (Contemporary Cardiology)
by William S. Weintraub

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Publisher: Humana Press
Number Of Pages: 456
Publication Date: 2003-06-15
Sales Rank: 1751284
ISBN / ASIN: 0896038742
EAN: 9780896038745
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Humana Press
Studio: Humana Press
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Book Description:

An illuminating and timely synthesis of methodological and clinical studies showing how medical costs can be established, how the value of clinical outcomes can be assessed, and how difficult choices can be rationally made. The methodological chapters review the conceptual and practical issues involved in estimating and interpreting health care costs, making health status and utility assessments, and statistically analyzing cost-effectiveness and clinical trials. The clinical chapters apply these methods to the major clinical areas of cardiology-primary prevention of coronary artery disease, acute coronary syndromes, angioplasty vs coronary bypass surgery, CABG vs medicine, congestive heart failure, arrhythmias, and cardiac surgery. Additional chapters consider the use of economic studies for policy purposes and the future of Medicare under a balanced budget in an aging America.

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الاحصائي كتب:

The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy.
by Kenneth Pomeranz


Publisher: Princeton University Press
Number Of Pages: 392
Publication Date: 2001-12-03
Sales Rank: 123791
ISBN / ASIN: 0691090106
EAN: 9780691090108
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
Studio: Princeton University Press
Average Rating: 4
Total Reviews: 16


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The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe, despite surprising similarities between advanced areas of Europe and East Asia? As Ken Pomeranz shows, as recently as 1750, parallels between these two parts of the world were very high in life expectancy, consumption, product and factor markets, and the strategies of households. Perhaps most surprisingly, Pomeranz demonstrates that the Chinese and Japanese cores were no worse off ecologically than Western Europe. Core areas throughout the eighteenth-century Old World faced comparable local shortages of land-intensive products, shortages that were only partly resolved by trade.

Pomeranz argues that Europe's nineteenth-century divergence from the Old World owes much to the fortunate location of coal, which substituted for timber. This made Europe's failure to use its land intensively much less of a problem, while allowing growth in energy-intensive industries. Another crucial difference that he notes has to do with trade. Fortuitous global conjunctures made the Americas a greater source of needed primary products for Europe than any Asian periphery. This allowed Northwest Europe to grow dramatically in population, specialize further in manufactures, and remove labor from the land, using increased imports rather than maximizing yields. Together, coal and the New World allowed Europe to grow along resource-intensive, labor-saving paths.

Meanwhile, Asia hit a cul-de-sac. Although the East Asian hinterlands boomed after 1750, both in population and in manufacturing, this growth prevented these peripheral regions from exporting vital resources to the cloth-producing Yangzi Delta. As a result, growth in the core of East Asia's economy essentially stopped, and what growth did exist was forced along labor-intensive, resource-saving paths--paths Europe could have been forced down, too, had it not been for favorable resource stocks from underground and overseas.

Date: 2005-11-24 Rating: 4
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Somewhat Innovative, Hard to Read
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