The Incidental Economist

Contemplating health care with a focus on research, an eye on reform.


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    Austin Frakt Google+ twitter facebook email
    Aaron Carroll twitter facebook email
    Kevin Outterson twitter facebook email
    Harold Pollack twitter facebook email
    Bill Gardner Google+ twitterfacebook email
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  • Recent posts

    • Fluoridation
    • How to debate a wing nut
    • Chart of the day: Cognitive ability and enrollment into public programs
    • Cutting the budget for inspections of compounding pharmacies
    • Sound Medicine: Why are employers offering health care incentives?
    • “Body Ritual among the Nacirema”
    • A conversation with Keith Humphreys on health reform, mental health, and substance abuse treatment
    • Micro and macro totems
    • Bias, validity, and terminology
    • The sequester is hurting mental health research
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  • Aaron’s stuff

    Selected appearances:
    The Colbert Report
    Good Morning America
    Sound Medicine (most recent)
    The Ed Show

  • Austin’s stuff

    Click here for a link to Austin's CV, as well as a complete list of his peer-reviewed publications with links to related posts and/or ungated versions (when available).

  • The Bogleheads

    I’m a big fan of Vanguard, John Bogle, and the community that appreciates their investing philosophy, now known as the Bogleheads (formerly the Vanguard Diehards). This is a very active community with a popular online forum and a developing wiki. Almost anything related to personal finance can be asked of and answered by the Bogleheads. I owe much of my knowledge of finance and motivation to learn more to them. I encourage you to check them out and to participate:

    • The Bogleheads Investment Forum
    • The Bogleheads Wiki

    There are also other blogs run by Bogleheads. The list below includes active blogs I know about written by bloggers with reasonably active participation on the Bogleheads Forum. You may wish to pay them a visit (Boglehead Forum screen name in parentheses):

    • Amateur Asset Allocator (KyleAAA)
    • Asset Allocation (Barry Barnitz)
    • Bob’s Financial Website (bob90245)
    • Crawling Road (Craigr)
    • Financial Page (Barry Barnitz)
    • indexfundfan@indextown (indexfundfan)
    • Investment Guide (pkcrafter)
    • Just Puckett (Paul Puckett)
    • The Finance Buff (tfb)
    • The Incidental Economist (sewall)
    • The Oblivious Investor (ObliviousInvestor)
    • Wise Investing (Larry Swedroe)
    • Zack Hiwiller (zhiwiller)
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