Description: Provides an international, unifying perspective, based on the 'public choice' tradition, to explain how patient-citizens interact with political institutions to determine health policies.
Brief description: Alberto Batinti is an associate professor of Economics at the International Business School Suzhou - Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and External Fellow at the Center for Health Economics at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. He has published research papers in peer-reviewed academic journals as Public Choice, The European Journal of Political Economy, Kyklos, and Health Economics.
Review Quotes: 'An important effort to understanding health policies through a shrewd lens of relevant political and economic institutions. A textbook undoubtedly needed to define new policies at a time our patients are losing patience.' Guillem Lopez Casasnovas, Universitat Pompeu Fabra