Principles of Health Economics for Developing Countries

William Jack World Bank Institute Development Studies, £20, pp 305 ISBN 0821345710 Rating: ![Graphic][1] ![Graphic][2] Health and economics have always been uneasy bedfellows, and both are currently in crisis. Britain's NHS, for example, is a poisoned chalice for politicians, whatever their affiliation. A recent article in the Economist suggested that economics as a discipline lacks pragmatism, with its obsessional search for general laws and overreliance on human rationality and mathematics. William Jack's book adopts the orthodox economics approach, and is not for the uninitiated. Jack is clearly … [1]: /embed/inline-graphic-1.gif [2]: /embed/inline-graphic-2.gif