EconTalk Archives, 2007
EconTalk Archives, 2007
EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Library of Economics and Liberty
Hanson on Health
1 hour 12 minutes Posted May 28, 2007 at 10:45 am.
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Robin Hanson, of George Mason University, argues that health care is different, but not in the usual ways people claim. He describes a set of paradoxical empirical findings in the study of health care and tries to explain these paradoxes in a unified way. One of his arguments is that the human brain evolved in ways that make it hard for us to be rational about health care. He also discusses using prediction markets as a way of designing health care policy.