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Publication: International Labour Review
Date: Saturday, December 22 2001

Zhou, Huizhong (ed.). The political economy of health care reforms.

Kalamazoo, MI, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2001.

vi+ 163 pp. Tables, figures, references, author index, subject index.

ISBN 0-88099-223-9.

Health care reforms have political as well as economic consequences. With that in mind, this collection of papers, based on lectures presented during the 1999-2000 academic year, takes a critical look at health care in the United States and suggests future policy directions.

The first paper, by Len M. N

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