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(More customer reviews)This book is a model for what social science can do, in four ways.
First, it takes on an important topic--one that has generated incredible heat in the popular press and in political circles.
Second, it takes an entirely fair perspective. Old fashioned as it may seem, the author is actually interested in finding out the truth about the med mal problem.
Third, it surveys the available literature in the social sciences, reads and cogently digests every significant study, and assess the merits of each. The author is not an economist, but his understanding of economics and his sober and astute assessment of the quantitative AND qualitative evidence is terrific.
Finally, the book does all this with a clarity and cogency of writing that make it eminently readable. This is not a dull slog through endless tables and figures. While the empirical evidence is discussed, and there is even some attention paid to issues of methodological reliability and so on, the prose is lucid and no one interested in the topic will find it tough going in the least.
In fact, no one interested in the topic--from doctor to lawyer to politico--can afford not to read this book. If only more social science were this good, the world would be a better place.
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