Samuel A. Kleiner of the Federal Trade Commission reviews “Measuring and Modeling Health Care Costs,” by Edited by Ana Aizcorbe, Colin Baker, Ernst R. Berndt, and David M. Cutler. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Fifteen revised papers seek to connect knowledge of health-care expenditures with measurable results, addressing questions of methodology, changes in the pharmaceutical industry, and the shifting landscape of physician practice.”
