title: What do economists measure?
abstract: Economics is concerned with the allocation of scarce resources between competing requirements, which in a market economy are measured in terms of finance. Competition for scarce resources is the major problem of health economics.
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006295:Health Resources / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D013222:State Medicine / Q000191:economics*; D006113:United Kingdom