Health economics: the cheerful face of the dismal science? [Lecture]

These are the slides and LaTeX source files (without copyrighted image files) from an introductory lecture that I gave to a group of non-economists (namely, postgraduate medical physicists) at the University of Liverpool in October 2014. The lecture consisted largely of Alan Williams quotes. In the lecture I discussed the scope of each part of Williams's plumbing diagram and gave an example of some recent research that might fall into this category. I then discussed some of the tensions and trade-offs that economists deal with, and presented some of the concepts used by health economists; arguing that these aspects make the subject potentially more interesting to the students than other subdisciplines of economics.

本数据集包含2014年10月我在利物浦大学（University of Liverpool）为一群非经济学专业人士（即研究生阶段的医学物理学家）开展的入门讲座所用的幻灯片及LaTeX源文件（已移除受版权保护的图像文件）。本次讲座主体内容大量引用了艾伦·威廉姆斯（Alan Williams）的观点。讲座中，我讲解了威廉姆斯管道图（Williams's plumbing diagram）各组成部分的研究范畴，并举例说明了可归入该范畴的若干近期研究成果。随后，我探讨了经济学家所面临的各类矛盾冲突与权衡取舍，并介绍了卫生经济学家常用的若干核心概念；我提出，相较于经济学其他分支学科，这些特性或将令卫生经济学这门学科更受在场学生的青睐。