Eli Ginzberg: The Economist as a Public Intellectual

by Horowitz,Irving

• ISBN13: 9780765801326
• ISBN10: 0765801329
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The world of Eli Ginzberg can readily be thought of as a triptych -- a career in three parts. In his early years, Ginzberg's work was dedicated to understanding the history of economics, from Adam Smith to C. Wesley Mitchell, and placing that understanding in what might well be considered economic ethnography. His studies took him on travels from Wales in the United Kingdom to California in the United States. For example, the poignant account of Welsh miners in an era of economic depression and technological change remains a landmark work. His report of a cross country trip taken in the first year of the New Deal provides insight and evaluation that can scarcely be captured in present-day writings.The second period of his career corresponds to Ginzberg's increasing involvement in the practice of economics. He deals with issues related to manpower allocation, employment shifts, and gender and racial changes in the workforce. His writing reflects a growing concern for child welfare and education. In this period, his work increasingly focuses on federal, state and city governments, and how the public sector impacts all basic social issues. His work was sufficiently transcendent of political ideology that seven presidents sought and received his advice and participation.After receiving all due encomiums and congratulations for intellectual work and policy research well done, Ginzberg then went on to spend the next thirty years of his life carving out a place as a preeminent economist of health, welfare services, and hospital administration. It is this portion of his life that is the subject of Eli Ginzberg: The Economist as a Public Intellectual. What is apparent in Ginzberg's work ofthis period is his sense of the growing interaction of all the social sciences -- pure and applied -- to develop a sense of the whole. The contributors to this festschrift, join together to provide a portrait of a figure wh

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Personal Memories
Eli Ginzberg: Listener and Scribbler	p. 3
The New Era as Seen by a Young Man	p. 17
Eli Ginzberg: A Man of Many Parts	p. 25
Thinking about Health Care in the United States and Great Britain: A Half-Century Perspective	p. 39
In Honor of Eli Ginzberg on His 90th Birthday	p. 49
Eli Ginzberg: A Scholar of Uncommonly Common-Sense	p. 53
Eli Ginzberg as Scholar
The Economics of Discrimination as Applied to Business Development	p. 67
Money and Medicine: What Should Physicians Earn/Be Paid?	p. 107
Danse Macabre: Poverty, Social Status, and Health	p. 121
Managed Care and the Prospects of Health Reform	p. 141
The Imperatives of Training Older Workers: A Massachusetts Report and Recommendations	p. 155
Health Services in a Transforming Metropolitan Economy	p. 169
The Economic and Political Costs of Britain's National Health Service	p. 185
The Theory of Policy: Eli Ginzberg as Social Scientist	p. 195
The Scholarship of Eli Ginzberg
Health, Medicine and Public Policy	p. 207
Bibliography	p. 253
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