TY - BOOK ID - 144705828 TI - The Humble Economist : on Health, Health Care and Social Decision Making PY - 2012 SN - 9780952560159 PB - York The University of York DB - UniCat KW - Health Care KW - Social systems KW - Social welfare KW - Health Policy KW - Decision Making KW - HD 30.23 decision making UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:144705828 AB - The Humble Economist collects together the most important writings of Professor Tony Culyer, a founding father of health economics who helped set up the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. It distils a powerful set of ideas that have profoundly influenced health policy and decision making, and shows how reason and evidence can be used to improve decision making in any area of social policy. The book comprises twenty-one short essays, selected and revised by Culyer himself, together with an introduction by the editors, his University of York colleagues Richard Cookson and Karl Claxton. The essays are divided into five parts reflecting central themes of Culyer’s work: the “humble” role of social scientists in informing decision making; the concept of “extra-welfarism” in normative economics; the application of ethical concepts in health care decision making, particularly “need” and “equity”; defining and achieving health policy objectives; and measurement, social value judgment and deliberative decision making processes in health technology assessment. ER -