Dictionary of Health Economics

![][1] Alan Earl-Slater Radcliffe Medical Press, £19.95, pp 164 ISBN 1 85775337 2 Rating: ![Graphic][2] ![Graphic][3] ![Graphic][4] Is economics really a “dismal science” (the sobriquet used by John Maynard Keynes and others during the great depression but first thought to be used by Lord Carlyle) with limited relevance to patient care? I thought it was until I studied it and was embarrassed by my previous disdain. Certainly economics, like epidemiology, is a partial lens that does not always reveal important information. For example, supply and demand curves do not always … [1]: /embed/graphic-1.gif [2]: /embed/inline-graphic-1.gif [3]: /embed/inline-graphic-2.gif [4]: /embed/inline-graphic-3.gif