Robin Hanson, PhD: Healthcare Signaling, the Conspicuous Caring Hypothesis, and Prediction Markets in Medicine
The External Medicine Podcast
Introduction
Robin Hanson is an economist at GMU, George Mason University. He got his PhD in 1997 from Caltech after a four-year graduate program. His introduction to health and medicine was during a two-year health policy postdoc. In 1999 he came up with a simple signaling story to address many of these puzzles. It led him to consider similar explanations to make sense of other industries or human behavior.
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