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Alain Enthoven

b. 1930

American economist

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Born 1930. Alain Enthoven is an American economist.

Alain C. Enthoven (born September 10, 1930) 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.

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.

In government and academia he has mentored public officials, faculty, and policy researchers including Richard Zeckhauser, Sara Singer, and Tim McDonald.

He features in the Adam Curtis documentary The Trap.

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Education
New College, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Employers
Stanford University
Awards
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Rhodes Scholarship
Also known as
Alain C. Enthoven, Alain Charles Enthoven

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American economist

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Alain Enthoven was born on 10 September 1930.

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Alain Enthoven is an economist.

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Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Alain Enthoven

· Wikidata: Q4705651

· DBpedia: Alain Enthoven

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