Product Description: This is a deeply personal memoir by the doyen of applied economics in the United States. His name is indelibly linked to the creation, expansion, and refinement of employment policy and human resource needs from 1935 to the present...read more

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Product Description: In one of the foremost critiques of the widespread view that in market-based economics the fluctuations of the marketplace are essentially self-regulating, Eli Ginzberg argues the reverse. He asserts that government regulation or intervention to provide stability in the capitalist marketplace is a necessity...read more

Product Description: Many different sectors of modern society influence the nation's healthcare system. Government, health insurance companies, managed care organizations, academic health centers, the pharmaceutical industry, and other groups all affect healthcare...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Business is a necessary evil that the moral leaders of mankind have tolerated but never condoned. At no time did they view with favor the pursuit of material gain. The Old Testament prophets proclaimed against the rapacity of the rich...read more

Product Description: Health care provision in the United States remains a critical policy issue. Despite large-scale organizational transformations in hospitals, changes in the ways that health care is delivered, and changes in the relations between patients and the staffs who provide health care services, health institutions remain financially unstable even as they have grown in size...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Hospital costs and the fees for physicians who treat patients admitted for inpatient care currently account for about half of the annual health care spending in the United States (around one trillion dollars). This situation will soon change, however, as market forces necessitate the downsizing, merging, and closing of acute-care hospitals...read more

Product Description: This is an extraordinary, first hand account of how the United States economy weathered the most devastating depression in the nation's history and how it responded to Roosevelt's New Deal initiatives. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: First published in 1966, this book is an unusual biography. It is written by a son about his father, by an interpreter of economics about an interpreter of rabbinics. It is done with obvious charm, with deep affection for the subject, and yet with surprising objectivity...read more

A world-renowned social scientist and member of the Presidential Commission on Manpower Planning presents an in-depth examination of the key factor that will determine the future performance of our large and mid-sized corporations: people, their selection, training, and integration into organizations. This book provides a blueprint for a human resource strategy designed to help American companies meet the competitive challenges they face in the United States and abroad. The reader is shown how to lure, train, and promote those who will form the core of management talent, and how to match each employee's talents with the performance goals of the corporation. The issues are set in a contemporary context, eg noting the needs of the dual-career family, and the changes necessary in corporate policy to adapt to these trends. Further, the book points to advantages presented by women as workers, managers and executives. Finally, it shows how to set priorities through strategic thinking about markets, products, services, and technologies - and how to select and organize personnel to make the new priorities work.

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Product Description: The early 1990s saw the U.S. health care system under intensifying pressures and strains as a consequence of steeply rising expenditures, an increase in the number of uninsured persons, and a range of other challenges, including increasingly severe pressures on the government and private employers, the principal payers for health care...read more

Analyzes the choices that must be made in order to overhaul the U.S. health-care system and describes the key parties in the issue, including the affluent physicians, overblown hospital sector, inefficient private health insurance companies, and profitable medical supply companies.

Product Description: Despite the long and distinguished history of health services research in the United States, this unparalleled work is the first comprehensive account of what health services research aims to do and what the research has actually accomplished...read more