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ISBN: 0691115273 069112793X 1400826497 1282129562 9786612129568 9781400826490 9780691127934 9780691115276 9780691127934 6612129565 9781282129566 Year: 2009 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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From humans to hermit crabs to deep water plankton, all living things compete for locally limiting resources. This universal truth unites three bodies of thought--economics, evolution, and history--that have developed largely in mutual isolation. Here, Geerat Vermeij undertakes a groundbreaking and provocative exploration of the facts and theories of biology, economics, and geology to show how processes common to all economic systems--competition, cooperation, adaptation, and feedback--govern evolution as surely as they do the human economy, and how historical patterns in both human and nonhuman evolution follow from this principle. Using a wealth of examples of evolutionary innovations, Vermeij argues that evolution and economics are one. Powerful consumers and producers exercise disproportionate controls on the characteristics, activities, and distribution of all life forms. Competition-driven demand by consumers, when coupled with supply-side conditions permitting economic growth, leads to adaptation and escalation among organisms. Although disruptions in production halt or reverse these processes temporarily, they amplify escalation in the long run to produce trends in all economic systems toward greater power, higher production rates, and a wider reach for economic systems and their strongest members. Despite our unprecedented power to shape our surroundings, we humans are subject to all the economic principles and historical trends that emerged at life's origin more than 3 billion years ago. Engagingly written, brilliantly argued, and sweeping in scope, Nature: An Economic History shows that the human institutions most likely to preserve opportunity and adaptability are, after all, built like successful living things.

The health care revolution
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ISBN: 0520254805 9786611385545 1281385549 0520934687 9780520934689 9780520254800 9781281385543 6611385541 Year: 2008 Publisher: Berkeley New York University of California Press Milbank Memorial Fund

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America's market-based health care system, unique among the nations of the world, is in large part the product of an obscure, yet profound, revolution that overthrew the medical monopoly in the late 1970's. In this lucid, balanced account, Carl F. Ameringer tells how this revolution came into being when the U.S. Supreme Court and Congress prompted the antitrust agencies of the federal government-the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department-to change the rules of the health care system. Ameringer lays out the key events that led up to this regime change; explores its broader social, political, and economic contexts; examines the views of both its proponents and opponents; and considers its current trajectory.

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Medical care --- Health care reform --- Finance --- History --- United States. --- American Medical Association --- Health reform --- Health system reform --- Healthcare reform --- Medical care reform --- Reform of health care delivery --- Reform of medical care delivery --- Delivery of health care --- Delivery of medical care --- Health care --- Health care delivery --- Health services --- Healthcare --- Medical and health care industry --- Medical services --- Personal health services --- A.M.A. (American Medical Association) --- AMA (American Medical Association) --- 美國醫學會 --- National Medical Association (1847- ) --- FTC --- Federal Trade Commission (U.S.) --- Federalʹnai︠a︡ torgovai︠a︡ komissii︠a︡ SShA --- Interstate Trade Commission, 1914 --- History, 20th Century --- Health Policy --- Economic Competition --- Antitrust Laws --- Health Care Reform --- Medical policy --- Health insurance --- Public health --- history --- Healthcare Reform --- Health Care Reforms --- Healthcare Reforms --- Reform, Health Care --- Reform, Healthcare --- Reforms, Health Care --- Reforms, Healthcare --- Antitrust Liability --- Sherman Antitrust Act --- Act, Sherman Antitrust --- Antitrust Act, Sherman --- Antitrust Law --- Antitrust Liabilities --- Law, Antitrust --- Laws, Antitrust --- Liabilities, Antitrust --- Liability, Antitrust --- Commerce --- Competition, Economic --- Competitions, Economic --- Economic Competitions --- National Health Policy --- Health Policies --- Health Policies, National --- Health Policy, National --- National Health Policies --- Policies, Health --- Policies, National Health --- Policy, Health --- Policy, National Health --- Policy Making --- 20th Cent. History (Medicine) --- 20th Cent. History of Medicine --- 20th Cent. Medicine --- Historical Events, 20th Century --- History of Medicine, 20th Cent. --- History, Twentieth Century --- Medical History, 20th Cent. --- Medicine, 20th Cent. --- 20th Century History --- 20th Cent. Histories (Medicine) --- 20th Century Histories --- Cent. Histories, 20th (Medicine) --- Cent. History, 20th (Medicine) --- Century Histories, 20th --- Century Histories, Twentieth --- Century History, 20th --- Century History, Twentieth --- Histories, 20th Cent. (Medicine) --- Histories, 20th Century --- Histories, Twentieth Century --- History, 20th Cent. (Medicine) --- Twentieth Century Histories --- Twentieth Century History --- American Medical Association. --- Healthcare Policy --- Healthcare Policies --- Policy, Healthcare --- Ittiḥādīyah-ʼi Pizishkān-i Amrīkā --- اتحاديۀ پزشکان امريکا --- HEALTH CARE REFORM -- 930.300 --- USA -- 930.300 --- 1970s. --- america. --- american economy. --- antitrust agencies. --- business economics. --- doctors. --- economic system. --- economics. --- federal government. --- federal trade commission. --- health and medicine. --- health care professionals. --- health care system. --- health care. --- justice department. --- legal. --- market based health care. --- medical professionals. --- medical revolution. --- modern medicine. --- nonfiction. --- political. --- social change. --- united states congress. --- united states. --- us supreme court.

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