Textbooks:
Barr, N. A. (2004). Economics of the welfare state. Oxford. (Ch, 4, 9, 12)
Le Grand, J., Robinson, R., & Propper, C. (2008). The economics of social problems. London: Macmillan. (Ch. 1, 2, 3, 5, 11)
Articles:
- Comanor, W. S. (1986). The political economy of the pharmaceutical industry. Journal of economic literature, 24(3), 1178-1217.
- DiMasi, J. A., Hansen, R. W., & Grabowski, H. G. (2003). The price of innovation: new estimates of drug development costs. Journal of health economics, 22(2), 151-185.
- Gruber, J. (2001). Tobacco at the crossroads: the past and future of smoking regulation in the United States. The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 15(2), 193-212.
- Henry, D., & Lexchin, J. (2002). The pharmaceutical industry as a medicines provider. The lancet, 360(9345), 1590-1595.
- Kenkel, Donald S. (1996) "New estimates of the optimal tax on alcohol." Economic Inquiry 34.2 (1996): 296-319.
- Manski, Charles F. "Adaptive partial drug approval: a health policy proposal." The Economists’ Voice 6.4 (2009).
- Maynard, A., & Bloor, K. (2003). Dilemmas in regulation of the market for pharmaceuticals. Health Affairs, 22(3), 31-41.
- Melberg, H. O. (2010). Conceptual problems with studies of the social cost of alcohol and drug use. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 27, 287-304.
- Mossialos, E., & Oliver, A. (2005). An overview of pharmaceutical policy in four countries: France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 20(4), 291-306.
- Warner, Kenneth E et al. (1995) "Criteria for determining an optimal cigarette tax: the economist's perspective." Tobacco Control 4.4 (1995): 380.