Alain Enthoven Explained

Alain C. Enthoven (born September 10, 1930)[1] is an American economist. He was a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1965, and from 1965 to 1969, he was the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis. Currently, he is Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management, Emeritus, at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Enthoven received his B.A. from Stanford University in 1952, an M.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 1954, and a Ph.D. from MIT in 1956. He was a RAND Corporation economist between 1956 and 1960.

Enthoven has argued that integrated delivery systems — networks of health care organizations under a parent holding company that provide a continuum of health care services — align incentives and resources better than most healthcare delivery systems, leading to improved medical care quality while controlling costs.[2]

He is a member of the Institute of Medicine, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a former Rhodes scholar.

He features in the Adam Curtis documentary The Trap.

Selected publications

References

  1. Web site: Curriculum Vitae: Alain C. Enthoven . June 2004 . Stanford University . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070611033018/http://iis-db.stanford.edu/staff/2072/Alain_Enthoven-CV.pdf . 2007-06-11 .
  2. Web site: Integrated systems improve medical care, control costs, according to Enthoven. 26 October 2005. 2017-03-07.

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