A socio-instutionalist critique of the 1990s' reforms of the United Kingdom's National Health Service

Review of Social Economy

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 403-433

  McMaster, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Institutional change; Neoclassical health economics; Reform; Utilitarianism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036752623     PISSN: 00346764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0034676021000013386     Document Type: Review

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