Victor Fuchs

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According to Wikipedia, Victor Robert Fuchs was an American health economist. He was known for his 1975 book Who Shall Live?, which detailed the consequences of rising health care costs in the United States. Early life and education Fuchs was born in the Bronx. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Austria. His younger brother, Lawrence Fuchs, went on to be a professor of American studies at Brandeis University.

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The Service Economy. (1970) (837)
Economic Aspects of Health (1983) (379)
The Supply of Surgeons and the Demand for Operations (1978) (355)
Economists' Views about Parameters, Values, and Policies: Survey Results in Labor and Public Economics (1998) (353)
The perfect storm of overutilization. (2008) (343)
Schooling and Health: The Cigarette Connection (1981) (340)
Economics, values, and health care reform. (1996) (325)
Women's Quest for Economic Equality. (1989) (312)
WHO SHALL LIVE? Health, Economics and Social Choice (1976) (284)
Physicians' views of the relative importance of thirty medical innovations. (2001) (271)
Reflections on the socio-economic correlates of health. (2004) (264)
"Though Much is Taken" -- Reflections on Aging, Health, and Medical Care (1984) (231)
Health Care for the Elderly: How Much? Who Will Pay for it? (1998) (176)
How does Canada do it? A comparison of expenditures for physicians' services in the United States and Canada. (1990) (175)
Who Shall Live? (2022) (166)
The growing demand for medical care. (1968) (153)
Hospital expenditures in the United States and Canada. (1993) (143)
The new technology assessment. (1990) (142)
Differences in Hourly Earnings Between Men and Women. (1971) (138)
Shortening medical training by 30%. (2012) (134)
Case Mix, Costs, and Outcomes: Differences between Faculty and Community Services in a University Hospital (1983) (132)
The New Demographic Transition: Most Gains in Life Expectancy Now Realized Late in Life (2012) (127)
Self-Employment and Labor Force Participation of Older Males (Revised) (1980) (122)
The Health Economy (1986) (121)
The contribution of health services to the American economy. (1966) (112)
More variation in use of care, more flat-of-the-curve medicine. (2004) (109)
How we live (1984) (106)
Geographic and Racial Variation in Premature Mortality in the U.S.: Analyzing the Disparities (2012) (103)
The Future of Health Economics (1999) (102)
The health sector's share of the gross national product. (1990) (97)
The gross domestic product and health care spending. (2013) (93)
Socioeconomic factors affecting the utilization of surgical operations. (1977) (90)
changes in the propensity to live alone: 1950–1976 (1980) (89)
America's Children: Economic Perspectives and Policy Options (1992) (88)
Economics, health, and post-industrial society. (1979) (87)
Introduction to "Determinants Of Expenditures For Physicians' Services In The United States 1948-68" (1972) (83)
Economic Research: Retrospect and Prospect, Volume 3, Policy Issues and Research Opportunities in Industrial Organization (1972) (82)
Essential elements of a technology and outcomes assessment initiative. (2007) (79)
Some Economic Aspects of Mortality in Developed Countries (1974) (77)
Toward a 21st-Century Health Care System: Recommendations for Health Care Reform (2009) (76)
The Growing Importance of the Service Industries (1965) (74)
Health care vouchers--a proposal for universal coverage. (2005) (73)
Economic Growth and the Rise of Service Employment (1980) (73)
Valuing health--a "priceless" commodity. (1987) (70)
Production and productivity in the service industries (1969) (69)
Major trends in the U.S. health economy since 1950. (2012) (67)
Surgical work loads in a community practice. (1972) (66)
Provide, Provide: the Economics of Aging (1998) (65)
Restructuring medical education to meet current and future health care needs. (2013) (64)
Who really pays for health care? The myth of "shared responsibility". (2008) (63)
The "rationing" of medical care. (1984) (62)
Essays in the economics of health and medical care (1973) (60)
The $640 billion question--why does cost-effective care diffuse so slowly? (2011) (59)
Employment-based health insurance: past, present, and future. (2006) (58)
The "competition revolution" in health care. (1988) (54)
Front matter, Differentials in Hourly Earnings by Region and City Size, 1959 (1967) (54)
Sex Differences in Economic Well-Being (1986) (53)
Managed care and merger mania. (1997) (53)
A Note on Sex Segregation in Professional Occupations (1975) (52)
The political economy of health care. (1979) (50)
CHANGES IN THE LOCATION OF U.S. MANUFACTURING SINCE 1929. (1959) (49)
Introduction to "Individual and Social Responsibility: Child Care, Education, Medical Care, and Long-Term Care in America" (1995) (47)
A Geography of Manufacturing@@@Changes in the Location of Manufacturing in the United States since 1929 (1963) (47)
Health care reform: why? What? When? (2005) (44)
The weaker sex? Vulnerable men and women’s resilience to socio-economic disadvantage (2016) (44)
Improving the delivery of health services. (1969) (41)
Health care and the United States economic system. An essay in abnormal physiology. (1972) (41)
Mathematical Achievement in Eighth Grade: Interstate and Racial Differences (1994) (40)
His and Hers: Gender Differences in Work and Income, 1959-1979 (1984) (39)
Specialization in medicine: how much is appropriate? (2012) (39)
The Future Of Health Policy (1993) (36)
The doctor's dilemma--what is "appropriate" care? (2011) (33)
Capital-Labor Substitution: A Note (1963) (33)
How and why US health care differs from that in other OECD countries. (2013) (33)
Social Determinants of Health: Caveats and Nuances. (2017) (33)
Physician-induced demand: A parable (1986) (33)
Three "inconvenient truths" about health care. (2008) (32)
Eliminating "waste" in health care. (2009) (31)
From Bismarck to Woodcock: The "Irrational" Pursuit of National Health Insurance (1976) (30)
Recent Trends in Southern Wage Differentials (1960) (30)
What's ahead for health insurance in the United States? (2002) (29)
STATISTICAL EXPLANATION OF THE RELATIVE SHIFT OF MANUFACTURING AMONG REGIONS OF THE UNITED STATES (1962) (29)
The counterrevolution in health care financing. (1987) (28)
Appendices to "Determinants Of Expenditures For Physicians' Services In The United States 1948-68" (1972) (28)
Motor accident mortality and compulsory inspection of vehicles. (1967) (28)
Sounding Boards. What is CBA/CEA, and why are they doing this to us? (1980) (27)
Why Do Economists Disagree About Policy? The Roles of Beliefs About Parameters and Values (1997) (26)
Integration, Concentration, and Profits in Manufacturing Industries (1961) (26)
The Clinton plan: a researcher examines reform. (1994) (26)
New priorities for future biomedical innovations. (2010) (26)
Current challenges to academic health centers. (2013) (25)
Nobel Laureate: Gary S. Becker: Ideas about Facts (1994) (24)
Recent Trends and Long-Run Prospects for Female Earnings (1974) (24)
National Health Insurance Revisited (1991) (24)
How We Live: An Economic Perspective on Americans from Birth to Death (1983) (24)
The Financial Problems of the Elderly: A Holistic Approach (2001) (24)
No pain, no gain. Perspectives on cost containment. (1993) (23)
Has Cost Containment Gone Too Far? (1985) (23)
Health Care Policy After the COVID-19 Pandemic. (2020) (22)
What Every Philosopher Should Know About Health Economics (1996) (21)
Individual and Social Responsibility (1996) (21)
The economics of health in a post-industrial society. (1979) (21)
Expenditures for reproduction-related health care. (1986) (20)
The battle for control of health care. (1982) (20)
A State Price Index (1979) (20)
Risk Attitudes in Health: An Exploratory Study (1982) (19)
Public Support for National Health Insurance: The Roles of Attitudes and Beliefs (2008) (19)
Health Care Expenditures Reexamined (2005) (18)
A Comprehensive Cure: Universal Health Care Vouchers (2011) (18)
The Weaker Sex? Vulnerable Men, Resilient Women, and Variations in Sex Differences in Mortality Since 1900 (2015) (18)
Cost shifting does not reduce the cost of health care. (2009) (17)
American Population since 1940 (1980) (17)
Black Gains in Life Expectancy. (2016) (16)
THE DETERMINANTS OF THE REDISTRIBUTION OF MANUFACTURING IN THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1929 (1962) (16)
The Service Industries and U.S. Economic Growth Since World War Ii (1977) (16)
Productivity Differences within the Service Sector (1968) (15)
Air pollution and medical care use by older Americans: a cross-area analysis. (2002) (15)
Poverty and Health: Asking the Right Questions (1992) (15)
The Distribution of Labor Incomes: A Survey With Special Reference to the Human Capital Approach (2016) (15)
Health reform: getting the essentials right. (2009) (15)
The Basic Forces Influencing Costs of Medical Care (1972) (15)
The Feminization of Poverty? (1986) (15)
Critiquing US health care. (2014) (14)
How to think about future health care spending. (2010) (14)
Health system reform. A different approach. (1994) (14)
Employee Response to Compulsory Short-Time Work (1986) (13)
If accountable care organizations are the answer, who should create them? (2012) (12)
The Conference and Unresolved Problems (1978) (12)
Statistical explanations of the relative shift of manufacturing among regions of the United States (1962) (12)
Productivity Trends in the Goods and Service Sectors, 1929-1961. A Preliminary Survey. (1964) (11)
Health care reform--why so much talk and so little action? (2009) (11)
Reforming US health care: key considerations for the new administration. (2009) (11)
Is Single Payer the Answer for the US Health Care System? (2018) (11)
The best health care system in the world? (1992) (11)
The coming challenge to American physicians. (1981) (10)
Some Implications of the Growth of a Service Economy (1968) (10)
Differences between faculty and community services in a university hospital. (1984) (9)
Health, Government, and Irving Fisher (1998) (9)
The proposed government health insurance company--no substitute for real reform. (2009) (9)
Government payment for health care--causes and consequences. (2010) (8)
Major Concepts of Health Care Economics (2015) (8)
Dear President Clinton. (1993) (8)
Low-level radiation and infant mortality. (1981) (7)
Productivity Trends in the Goods and Service Sectors, 1929-1961 (1967) (7)
How to Make US Health Care More Equitable and Less Costly: Begin by Replacing Employment-Based Insurance. (2018) (7)
Are Americans underinvesting in their children? (1991) (7)
Why are Children Poor? (1986) (7)
The Economics of Physician and Patient Behavior (1978) (6)
Comparable Worth in a General Equilibrium Model of the U.S. Economy (1986) (6)
Floridian exceptionalism. (2003) (6)
Intersectoral Shifts and Aggregate Productivity Change (1973) (6)
The transformation of US physicians. (2015) (6)
The economics of health in a postindustrial society. (1979) (5)
Income Elasticity of Demand (1965) (5)
Ethics and economics. Antagonists or allies in making health policy? (1998) (5)
The economics of the fur industry (1957) (5)
Setting priorities in health education and promotion. (1983) (5)
Why Do Other Rich Nations Spend So Much Less on Healthcare (2018) (5)
Health care is different--that's why expenditures matter. (2010) (5)
The Economics of the Fur Industry. (1958) (5)
The health manpower gap re-examined. (1970) (5)
Introduction to "Economic Aspects of Health" (1982) (5)
Introduction to "Differentials in Hourly Earnings by Region and City Size, 1959" (1967) (5)
Supplement to NBER Report Three (1968) (4)
Health Care Reform: Why? What? When? What it might take to effect comprehensive change. (2005) (4)
Paying the Piper, Calling the Tune: Implications of Changes in Reimbursement (1985) (4)
Is US Medical Care Inefficient? (2018) (4)
The Growing Importance of Service Employment (1968) (4)
The Distribution of Earnings in Health and Other Industries (1970) (4)
Medical Innovation: Promise and Pitfalls (2003) (4)
Employment-Based Health Insurance: Past, Present, And (2006) (4)
Front matter, The Service Economy (1968) (4)
Education and Its Consequences: My Philosophy of Life (1993) (3)
Health Services Research Moves Ahead. (1969) (3)
A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF PRODUCTIVITY IN SELECTED SERVICE INDUSTRIES IN THE UNITED STATES, 1939–1963 (1966) (3)
Health Economics and Policy:Selected Writings by Victor Fuchs (2018) (3)
Essays in the Economics of Health and Medical Care. (1973) (3)
National Bureau of Economic Research conference on the economics of physician and patient behavior. The conference and unresolved problems. (1978) (3)
Concepts of Health—an Economist's Perspective (1976) (3)
Public policy and the medical establishment: who's on first? (1979) (3)
From Bismark to Woodcock: The (1976) (2)
A more effective, efficient and equitable system. (1976) (2)
Introduction to "The Growing Importance of the Service Industries" (1965) (2)
To Control Costs Expand Managed Care and Managed Competition. (2019) (2)
Floridian exceptionalism: Why do elderly floridians use more health care services than their peers in the other states and have lower mortality rates? (2003) (2)
Quality of Labor (1964) (2)
Perspectives: United States. Learning from the Canadian experience. (1988) (2)
The Dedicated VAT Solution (2011) (2)
The Earnings of Allied Health Personnel - Are Health Workers Underpaid? (1976) (2)
Reflections on Economic Research and Public Policy John R. Commons Award Lecture, 2002 (2002) (2)
Does Employment-Based Insurance Make the US Medical Care System Unfair and Inefficient? (2019) (2)
Productivity in Services: Three Case Studies (1968) (2)
Are Health Workers Underpaid? (1975) (2)
Expanding Role of Technology Assessment in Health Policy (1991) (1)
Overview: the next step. (1995) (1)
Reasons for the Relative Growth of Service Employment (1965) (1)
Drugs: The Key to Modern Medicine (1998) (1)
Medical innovation: promise & pitfalls (2003) (1)
INTRODUCTION: Health and Economics (1998) (1)
Production and Productivity in the Service Industries. Studies in Income and Wealth No. 34. (1970) (1)
What are the prospects for enduring comprehensive health care reform? (2007) (1)
Medical costs: why they are; what they are. (1967) (1)
Front matter, Essays in the Economics of Health and Medical Care (1972) (1)
Arrow’s Contributions to Health Economics (1987) (1)
Health Care Overutilization in the United States—Reply (2008) (1)
Front matter, The Growing Importance of the Service Industries (1965) (1)
Problems and Choices (2011) (1)
Four health care reforms for 2009. (2009) (1)
Can the traditional practice of medicine survive? (1970) (1)
Input and Output Measures (1964) (1)
What kind of system for health care? (1969) (1)
Coming Problems of U.S. Economic Development: A review of two volumes of specially prepared essays by economists, sociologists, and other thinkers. (1958) (1)
The Service Economy. N.B.E.R. General Series No. 87. (1970) (1)
Perspectives: United States (1988) (1)
You have printed the following article : Prospect Theory : An Analysis of Decision under Risk (1979) (1)
States or SMA's When Studying Location of Manufacturing (1959) (1)
Health Care Reform: Comment (1996) (1)
Learning From The Canadian Experience (1988) (1)
A CONVERSATION ABOUT HEALTH CARE REFORM (1994) (1)
Physicians'ViewsOfThe RelativeImportanceOf ThirtyMedicalInnovations A survey of leading general internists provides a useful consensus on the relative importance of innovations to their patients. (2001) (1)
Stabilizing Health Care's Share of the GDP. (2022) (1)
Mismatch? A Review of Becker's A Treatise on the Familyn (2015) (0)
Appendix G: Measures of Output and Input in Detailed Service Industries (1968) (0)
The Physician: The Captain of the Team (1998) (0)
Productivity Differences Within the Service Sector: A Statistical Analysis (1968) (0)
Book Review:Employer Concentration in Local Labor Markets Robert L. Bunting (1963) (0)
A conversation about health care reform. Interview by Linda Hawes Clever. (1994) (0)
This PDF is a selection from an out-of-print volume from the National Bureau of Economic Research Volume Title: Differentials in Hourly Earnings by Region and City Size, 1959 (1970) (0)
Concepts and cases in economic analysis (1958) (0)
Demographic Change and Fiscal Policy: Comment (2001) (0)
Basic Data (1966) (0)
Comments on Paper by Skinner and Zhou (2004) (0)
Appendix A: Time Series: Sources and Methods (1973) (0)
Changes in Relative Factor Prices (1965) (0)
Expanded Social Responsibility for Long-Term Care (1996) (0)
Perspectives: United States. Learning from the Canadian experience. (1989) (0)
A Collection of Articles on U.S. Health Reform (2010) (0)
A Collection of Articles on U.S. Health Reform (2010) (0)
Review: Financing Medical Education: An Analysis of Alternative Policies and Mechanisms by Rashi Fein and Gerald I. Weber (1972) (0)
Reports on Selected Bureau Programs (1965) (0)
Front matter, Productivity Differences within the Service Sector (1967) (0)
Front matter to "Productivity Trends in the Goods and Service Sectors, 1929–61: A Preliminary Survey" (1964) (0)
Skill Level and Geographical Differentials (1967) (0)
Real Output and Productivity of Commercial Banks (1970) (0)
Will the Shift to Services Continue (1965) (0)
Differences Over Time, 1948-68: A Statistical Decomposition (1973) (0)
Introduction and Summary, Determinants of Expenditures for Physicians' Services in the United States 1948–68 (1973) (0)
My Philosophy of Life (2018) (0)
Where the Fur Still Flies (1957) (0)
Appendix A: Sources, Notes, and Basic Data (1967) (0)
Preface, Kenneth Arrow and the Changing Economics of Health Care (2018) (0)
National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on Productivity in Health (1982) (0)
Shortening Medical Education—Reply (2012) (0)
Reflections on the Rise of Service Sector Employment (2021) (0)
Appendix D: Estimates of Sector Differentials in the Growth of Capital per Worker (1968) (0)
Perspective What Are The Prospects For Enduring Comprehensive Health Care Reform (2007) (0)
This PDF is a selection from an out-of-print volume from the National Bureau of Economic Research Volume Title: Productivity Differences within the Service Sector (1970) (0)
Appendix C: Definitions and Sources of Measures of Output and Input (1968) (0)
Why health economics? (1973) (0)
Comment on "The Final Inequality: Variance in Age at Death" (2010) (0)
Interindustry and Intersector Differences in Hourly Earnings (1968) (0)
Appendix F: Reliability of Hours Data in 1/1,000 Sample (1968) (0)
This PDF is a selection from an out-of-print volume from the National Bureau of Economic Research Volume Title: The Growing Importance of the Service Industries (1970) (0)
Implications for Economic Analysis (1965) (0)
American Medicine: The Power Shift@@@The Health Economy (1988) (0)
City Size Differentials (1967) (0)
Front Matter to "Determinants Of Expenditures For Physicians' Services In The United States 1948-68" (1972) (0)
The Hospital: The House of Hope (1998) (0)
Short-Run and Long-Run Prospects for Female Earnings (1973) (0)
Advertising on Trial (1960) (0)
The Economics of Reproduction-Related Health Care (1985) (0)
Productivity Trends by Sector and Major Industry Group (1968) (0)
The Baxter Foundation Prize address. Health services research and cost of care. (1991) (0)
Book ReviewThe Economics of Medical Care: A policy perspective. (1979) (0)
Appendix B: Time Series, Derivation of Average Price (1973) (0)
PAYING FOR MEDICAL CARE: (2021) (0)
Changes in Demand and Productivity; The "Real" Gross National Product (1965) (0)
Fuchs Eliminating " Waste " in Health Care (2009) (0)
Specialization in Health Care—Reply (2012) (0)
America’s Changing Industrial Map (1962) (0)
Response : Household Composition and Children's Income (1992) (0)
Health Care Overutilization in the United States. Authors' reply (2008) (0)
The Transformation of American Physicians (2018) (0)
Differences Across States, 1966: An Econometric Analysis (1972) (0)
Response: the economic well-being of women. (1986) (0)
Appendix H: Alternative Measures of Real Output in Some Service Industries (1968) (0)
Response : The Economic Well-Being of Women (1986) (0)
MEASURES OF OUTPUT AND INPUT IN DETAILED (1970) (0)
Appendix C: Cross Section: Sources and Methods (1973) (0)
Appendix I: Detailed Industry Data and Sources (1968) (0)
An economist looks at health care. (1976) (0)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRAGMATIST’S GUIDE TO COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH (2011) (0)
Appendix J: Cyclical Fluctuation Analysis: Sources and Methods (1968) (0)
r 3 Improving the Delivery of Health Services (1972) (0)
Fuchs on Health, Government, and Fisher (2005) (0)
How We Live by Victor R. Fuchs (1986) (0)
FOREWORD TO THE 1972 EDITION (2017) (0)
Scope, Definitions, and Sources (1967) (0)
The Challenges to Health Policy in Modern Economies (2018) (0)
Health Economics and Policy (2019) (0)
Funding Health Care for All Americans: An Economic Perspective (2008) (0)
THEORETICAL DISCUSSION OF SECTOR (1970) (0)
Competitive Structure and Inter-Industry Competition (1956) (0)
List of Contributors, Indexes (1982) (0)
The Structure of Medical Education — It’s Time for a Change (2018) (0)
Who will control health care? (1983) (0)
A More Detailed Look at the Growth of Services (1965) (0)
Regional Differential Adjusted for City Size (1967) (0)
Front matter, table of contents, foreword (1972) (0)
Front matter, table of contents, acknowledgment (1982) (0)
Changes in Productivity (1964) (0)
Appendix A: Problems in the Measurement of Output and Productivity in the Service Industries (1967) (0)
National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on Productivity in Health (1982) (0)
Introduction to "Productivity Trends in the Goods and Service Sectors, 1929–61: A Preliminary Survey" (1964) (0)
The economics of health care in the 70s. (1970) (0)
Health Affairs promotion Setting priorities in health education and (2001) (0)
Introduction to "A Statistical Analysis of Productivity in Selected Service Industries in the United States, 1939–63" (1967) (0)
AGING, HEALTH, AND MEDICAL CARE (1984) (0)
Appendix B: Reliability of Hours Data (1967) (0)
Reform: The Authors Respond (2006) (0)
Physical Capital and the "Residual" (1964) (0)
Air Pollution And Medical Care Use By Older Americans: A Cross-Area Analysis Reducing air pollution not only improves people's health, it also can lead to reduced spending for medical care. (2002) (0)
Appendix B: Sources and Data (1967) (0)
This PDF is a selection from an out-of-print volume from the National Bureau of Economic Research Volume Title: Productivity Trends in the Goods and Service Sectors, 1929–61: A Preliminary Survey (1970) (0)
My Remarks When Awarding the ASHE (American Society of Health Economists) Career Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Field of Health Economics in My Name to Joseph Newhouse (2014) (2018) (0)
The Service Economy: Appendix A: Theoretical Discussion of Sector Shifts in Employment (1968) (0)
CONCLUSION: Health and Social Choice (1998) (0)
Appendix B: Notation and Definitions, Chapter Three (1968) (0)
Appendix E: Discussion of the 1/1,000 Sample of the U.S. Census of Population and Housing (1968) (0)
Economics of American Health Care (1983) (0)
Region, City Size, and Interindustry Differences in Earnings (1967) (0)
Front matter, table of contents, acknowledgments (1996) (0)
The Financial Problems of the Elderly: A Holistic View (2018) (0)
2 Differences Across States , 1966 : An Econometric Analysis (2007) (0)

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