"Vic Fuchs' Who Shall Live? is the most important book ever on health economics. It has inspired us all these many years, and it is terrific to see a new edition, post-Obamacare and post-pandemic." --Sir Angus S Deaton, Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics 2015 "In considering the great health challenges of our time Victor Fuchs' work remains more important than ever. In the third edition, Fuchs' seminal text has been expanded to reflect recent policy and politics. It remains essential reading to better understand the complex interaction between social determinants, health and health care costs." --Victor J Dzau, MD, President, National Academy of Medicine
"The problems addressed in this classic book, especially unequal access to health care, rising costs, and poor health outcomes, are just as relevant now as they were when the first edition appeared in 1974. The third edition includes updated analyses and materials about the most significant health policy questions." --Janet Currie, President-elect American Economic Association 2023
"Few, if any, social scientists have had more influence on thought and action in health care policy than Victor Fuchs. His greatest contribution may well be his prescient 1974 masterpiece, Who Shall Live?. Fuchs and Eggleston have updated this work and anyone who cares about health care policy should study this book, master its messages, and act." --Donald M Berwick, MD, Former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
"Who Shall Live? is the first book I read on health economics, and it is still the best. Few economists of any stripe are as wise as Fuchs and I thoroughly welcome this update of his classic text." --Anne C Case, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Emeritus, Princeton University
"Two decades since being assigned Who Shall Live? as foundational reading for my PhD in Health Policy, I urge my students in the Medical School and the Graduate School of Business to read this compact up-to-date new edition to better prepare for reform of US health care." --Sara Singer, Professor of Medicine, Stanford University
Victor R Fuchs is the Henry J Kaiser Jr., Professor of Economics and of Health Policy, Emeritus. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1974 in the Economics Department and the medical school. He has written extensively on the cost of medical care, on the determinants of health, and on health policy. Fuchs was president of the American Economic Association and is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Medicine. He was the first economist to receive the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Association for Health Services Research. The Victor R Fuchs Award for lifetime contribution to health economics is awarded biennially by the American Society of Health Economists. Karen Eggleston is a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, director of the Stanford Asia Health Policy Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, and a faculty research fellow of the economics of health program of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Previous books include The Dragon, the Eagle, and the Private Sector with John D Donahue and Richard J Zeckhauser, and Welfare, Choice and Solidarity in Transition with János Kornai.
