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
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.
Enthoven received his B.A. from
Stanford University
Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...
in 1952, an M.Phil. from the
University of Oxford
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in 1954, and a Ph.D. from
MIT in 1956. He was a
RAND Corporation
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economist between 1956 and 1960.
Enthoven has argued that
integrated delivery systems — networks of
health care
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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
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, a fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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, and is a former
Rhodes scholar
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Esta ...
.
He features in the
Adam Curtis
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documentary ''
The Trap''.
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External links
Alain C. Enthoven biofrom Stanford University.
Interview about nuclear strategyfor the WGBH series
War and Peace in the Nuclear Age
Living people
1930 births
Stanford University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Alumni of New College, Oxford
American Rhodes Scholars
American health economists
Kennedy administration personnel
Lyndon B. Johnson administration personnel
United States Department of Defense officials
RAND Corporation people
Stanford University Graduate School of Business faculty
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Recipients of the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service
Members of the National Academy of Medicine
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