Jan TINBERGEN (1903–1994). Signed autograph manuscript, *The - Lot 145

Jan TINBERGEN (1903–1994). Signed autograph manuscript, *The Right to Health – An Economist’s View*, 1978; 16 pages, in-4; in English. Paper presented at the conference “The Right to Health as a Human Right,” held in The Hague on July 27–29, 1978, organized by The Hague Academy of International Law and the United Nations University. The manuscript, which contains cross-outs and corrections, is divided into 8 sections: 1 The Economist’s Approach to Social Problems; 2 The Need for Figures about Health; 3 Health as Part of Basic Needs; 4 The Relevance of Health to Welfare; 5 Loss of Health as a Consequence of Overconsumption; 6 The Contribution of Socio-Economic Policies to Improving the Level and Distribution of Health; 7 Physical and Mental Health; 8 Summary and Conclusions, plus References. Here is the opening: “Economic science does not deal with rights. Its subject may be formulated as the use of scarce resources to attain goals set by individuals or by groups of individuals. There are many different groups that play a relevant role in society; they range from small to very large”…