The world of Eli Ginzberg can readily be thought of as a triptych-a career in three parts. In his early years, Ginzberg's work was dedicated to understanding the history of economics, from Adam Smith to C. Wesley Mitchell, and placing that understanding in what might well be considered economic ethnography.

PART I: Personal Memories 1. Eli Ginzberg: Listener and Scribbler 2. The New Era as Seen by a Young Man 3. Eli Ginzberg: A Man of Many Parts 4. Thinking about Health Care in the United States and Great Britain: A Half-Century Perspective 5. In Honor of Eli Ginzberg on His 90th Birthday 6. Eli Ginzberg: A Scholar of Uncommonly Common-Sense PART II: Eli Ginzberg as Scholar 7. The Economics of Discrimination as Applied to Business Development 8. Money and Medicine: What Should Physicians Earn/Be Paid? 9. Danse Macabre: Poverty, Social Status, and Health 10. Managed Care and the Prospects of Health Reform 11. The Imperatives of Training Older Workers: A Massachusetts Report and Recommendations 12. Health Services in a Transforming Metropolitan Economy 13. The Economic and Political Costs of Britain's National Health Service 14. The Theory of Policy: Eli Ginzberg as Social Scientist 15. Health, Medicine and Public Policy

Irving Louis Horowitz is Hanna Arendt Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, where he has taught for over thirty years. He also serves as Chairman of the Board at Transaction Publishers. His writings include Radicalism and the Revolt Against Reason; Behemoth: Main Currents in the History and Theory of Political Sociology; and Taking Lives: Genocide and State Power.