Talk:Michael Cooper (economist)

Information from Joy Cooper
I have received the following information from Joy Cooper. ChrisSampson87 (talk) 11:55, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

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Mike "first became involved with economics in relation to health while working with Dennis Lees at the University of Keele"

Personal details
Dual New Zealand and UK citizenship: Born Lowestoft, UK, 15 December, 1938: Married Angela Joy Cooper BA(Hons), BSc(Hons), Dip Hlth Admin: Three children (27.12.72;  22.8.74; 26.5.80).

Experience

 * Graduated BA(Hons) in Economics (with Psychology), University of Leicester 1961.
 * Master, (Economics and English) Canton High School for Boys, Cardiff 1961-62.
 * Research Assistant, University of Keele, 1962-63.
 * Assistant Lecturer in Economics, University of Keele, 1963-64.
 * Lecturer in Economics, University of Exeter, 1964-71.
 * Reader in Economics, University of Exeter, 1971-75.
 * Visiting Professor - Stanford Business School, 1968-69 (1 year). University of Exeter, 1983-84 (3 months)
 * Donald Reid Professor of Economics, University of Otago, 1976-94
 * Dean, Faculty of Arts and Music, 1984-86
 * Pro Vice-Chancellor, 1990-95 including various short spells acting as Vice-Chancellor.
 * Principal and Chief Executive Officer, Central Institute of Technology, Upper Hutt, Wellington, and Auckland (Broadway) New Zealand, 1-2-95 to 31-1-98. Professorial Research Fellow, 1996 - 98.

Honours

 * Awarded an OBE, New Year Honours 1994
 * Awarded a New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal
 * Rotary - Paul Harris Fellow (two, one with sapphire)

Memberships

 * Deputy Chairperson, NZ Health Research Council, 1990-1995
 * Chairperson, National Advisory Committee on Health Training and Research, 1993-94
 * Health Commissioner, Otago Area Health Board, 1991-93
 * Chairperson, Otago Area Health Board, 1988-91
 * Vice-President, Health Boards New Zealand, 1987-91. Member 1986-87
 * Co-opted member, Otago Polytechnic Council, 1986-90
 * Chairman, Otago Hospital Board, 1986-88. Member by public election 1983-86.  Chairman, Psychiatric Services Sub-Committee 1985-86.
 * Chairman, Otago Health Services Advisory Committee, 1987-88
 * Allocation and Resource Committee (Board of Health), 1986-88
 * Cardiac Surgical Services Review (the "Lang Committee"), 1986
 * NZ Board of Health (by Government appointment), 1983-88
 * Hospital and Specialists Standing Committee (Board of Health), 1985-87
 * NZ Social Science Research Fund (by Government appointment), 1979-88. (Acting Chairman August-November, 1985).
 * NZ Government Special Advisory Committee on Health Services Organisation (SACHSO) (by Government appointment), 1976-83
 * President (1980-82); Vice-President (1979-80), NZ Association of Economists
 * President, Economics Section, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, 1979
 * Chairman, Board of Governors, Columba College, Dunedin, 1984-89; Member 1979-84
 * Member, Chemicals Sub-Committee; Research Steering Committee, 1970-72, NEDO, London
 * Zurich Consumers Committee on Civil Aviation, 1970-73
 * Chairman, Queen Mary Hospital Birthing Centre Appeal, 1984. Chairman, Steering Committee, 1985-88
 * Member, Corstorphine Baptist Centre Trust Board, 1986
 * Member, Ashburn Hall Education and Research Foundation Management Committee, 1980-82
 * Chief National Salaries Negotiator, (1982-85). Negotiator, (1980-82) NZ Association of University Teachers.
 * Chair, Review of Post-Entry Education of General Practitioners, 1996 - 97
 * Member, NZ Artificial Limb Board, 1992 -
 * Member, Presbyterian Support Services 1996 -
 * Member, APNZ Marketing Forum 1996 - 98
 * Member, Upper Hutt Economic Development Agency 1996 -
 * Member, Planning and Priorities Committee HRC, 1995 - (Chair 1994-95)
 * Peter Luxford Foundation for Artificial Limb Research, 1989-
 * South Pacific Cyrogenics Trust, 1987-90
 * Creative Arts Trust, 1986-88; Chair 1994; Member 1995-96
 * "Wordstruck"; Festival of New Zealand Writing, Chair 1994;  Member 1995
 * Patron - ResCare (NZ Psychopaedic Hospital Parents Associations) 1993, Murray McGeorge Toy Library Association 1990-1995, RAPID (Relatives and Advocates for Persons with an Intellectual Disability) 1993, Dunedin Showcase Trust 1996.
 * Chair - CORPAC (Budgeting Service for Persons with a Psychiatric Disability), 1994-95
 * Chair - "Showcase Dunedin" Trust, 1989-1995

Editorship

 * Editor, Social and Economic Administration, Blackwells, Oxford, 1966-73
 * Editor, Occasional Papers in Social and Economic Administration, 1966-74.
 * Board member, Social Policy and Administration, Blackwells
 * Board member, PharmacoEconomics, Adis International.
 * Board member, Managerial and Decision Economics, Heydon
 * Board member, NZ Economic Journal
 * Board member, Journal of Health Economics
 * Board member, Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Economics

Books

 * Rationing Health Care, Croom Helm (UK) and John Wiley (Halstead Press) (USA), 1975
 * Prices and Profits in the Pharmaceutical Industry, Pergamon Press, 1966. Paper and hard cover editions.
 * The Price of Blood, An Economic Study of the Charitable and Commercial Principle, Institute of Economic Affairs, 1968 (with A.J. Culyer).
 * The Price of Air Travel, IEA, 1971 (with A.K. Maynard).
 * European Pharmaceutical Prices 1965-74, Croom Helm, 1975
 * International Price Comparisons, National Economic Development Office (London), 1972, (with A.J. Cooper).
 * Social Policy, Blackwell, 1974 (Editor). Paperback edition, Martin Robertson, 1975.
 * Health Economics, Penguin, 1973 (Joint Editor with A.J. Culyer).
 * The Pharmaceutical Industry in the UK, Economists Advisory Group, Dunn and Bradstreet, 1973 (with A.J. Culyer).
 * A New Health Service for New Zealand? University of Otago, 1978 (Joint Editor with P.J. Shannon).
 * Funding for Health: An Allocation Formula, Department of Health Special Report Series No. 58, Government Printer, 1981 (with A.G. Smith, F.M. Sutton, G.C. Salmond and J.D.K. North).

Articles

 * "The Measurement and Interpretation of Profitability in the Pharmaceutical Industry", Oxford Economic Papers, November, 1968 (with J.E.S. Parker).
 * "The Economics of Need" in M. Perlman (ed.) The Economics of Health and Medical Care, Macmillan, 1974. (Reprinted in M. Buxton (ed.) Patterns of Inequality, Unit 12, D302, Open University, 1976).
 * "Health Care Dilemmas", National Westminster Bank Review, February, 1975.
 * "Equality and the NHS: Intentions, Performance and Problems in Evaluation" in M. Hauser (ed.) The Economics of Medical Care, Allen & Unwin, 1972 (with A.J. Culyer).
 * "Patents and Innovation" in G. Teeling-Smith (ed.), Innovation and the Balance of Payments, OHE, 1967.
 * "The Effect of Regulated Competition on Scheduled Air Fares in Europe", Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, May 1972 (with A.K. Maynard).
 * "Sociological and Economic Problems of Prisoners' Work", in P. Halmos (ed.) Sociological Studies in the British Penal Services, Sociological Review Monograph 1965 (with R.D. King).
 * "An Economic Analysis of some Aspects of the NHS" in I. Jones (ed.) Health Services Financing, BMA, 1970 (with A.J. Culyer).
 * "Financing and Rationing Health Care Resources" in W.D. Reekie and N. Hunt (eds.) Management in the Safety and Social Services, Tavistock Press, 1974.
 * "The Economics of Giving and Selling Blood" in A. Seldon (ed.) The Economics of Charity, IEA, 1974 (with A.J. Culyer).
 * "Tax Credits: Problems and Proposals", Social and Economic Administration, Vol.7, No.2, 1973
 * "Public Drugs and Private Medicine", SEA, Vol.2, No.2, 1968
 * "A Note on the Economic Implications of Fair Rents", SEA, Vol.9, No.1, 1975 (with D.C. Stafford).
 * "An Economic Survey of the Nature and Intent of the NHS", Social Science and Medicine, Vol.5, No.1, 1971 (with A.J. Culyer).
 * "Profitability Ratios and Foreign-owned Subsidiaries", Business Ratios, Autumn 1967 (with J.E.S. Parker).
 * "Vers une rationalisation des despenses de Sante" in Proceedings of the 1st World Congress of Environmental Medicine and Biology, Elsevier and North Holland, 1975
 * "Prison Work", New Society, 2 September, 1975 (with R.D. King).
 * "Drugs and the NHS", New Society, 4 June, 1964
 * "Prescription Fallacies", New Society, 12 May, 1966 (with R.H. Jones).
 * "The Capitation Fee", Lancet, 20 April, 1963 (with D.S. Lees)
 * "Fee per item of Service - 1913-28", Medical Care, Vol.2, No.3, 1964, (with D.S. Lees)
 * "Research into General Practice", Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, Vol.6, No.3, 1963 (with D.S. Lees).
 * "Amenity and Private Pay Beds", British Medical Journal, 8 June, 1963 (with D.S. Lees)
 * "The Work of the General Practitioner", Journal of the Royal College of Practitioners, Vol.6, No.4, 1963 (with D.S. Lees)
 * "Rationing Health", New Society, 18 April, 1974
 * "How to Pay for the Health Service", Journal of the Royal Society of Health, Vol.91, No.5, 1971
 * "Rationing by Need", in I.E. Black (ed.), Rising Costs of Health Care, BMA, 1976
 * "Health Costs and Expenditures in the UK", In Teh-wei Hu (ed.), International Health Costs and Expenditures, US Department of Health, Education and Welfare (76-1067), 1976
 * "Health Education and the Demand for Health Care", in N. Carr and J.S. Dodge (eds.) Attitude Change in Health Education, Otago University, 1976
 * "Health Resources: Planning and Priorities", Science and Public Policy,Vol.3, No.1, 1976
 * "Substitute Competition and the International Pharmaceutical Industry", Australian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vol.6, No.4, 1977
 * "An Economists Perspective on Health" in M.H. Cooper and P.T. Shannon (eds.) A New Health Service in New Zealand?, University of Otago, 1968
 * "Health Care: An Economists View of the Need for Change" in H.M. Murphy (ed.) Cost Containment and Quality Control, Australian Studies in Health Service Administration, No.34, University of NSW, 1978
 * "The Economic Implications of Fair Rents" in R.A.B. Leaper (ed.) Health, Wealth and Housing, Martin Robertsons and Blackwells, 1980 (with D.S. Stafford)
 * "Demand and Need for Dental Care", Social Policy and Administration, Vol.13, No.2, 1979. Reprinted in R.A.B. Leader (ed.) Health, Wealth and Housing, op.cit
 * "Economics of Health" in J.G. Richards (ed.) Primary Health Care and the Community, Longmans Paul, 1981
 * "Too Many Doctors?", Australian G.P., 12, 10 3-10, 1979
 * "The Economics of Self-Medication" in Partners in Responsible Self-Medication, Proceedings of the 5th World Federation of Proprietary Medicine Manufacturers, pp.37-41, 1979
 * "Health Economics" in E. Towers (ed.) Economics Reading Lists, Vol.14, Eno River Press, Durham, 1980
 * "Too Many Doctors", in D.J. Moore (ed.) The Reorganisation of the Health Services: Essays in Honour of Ralph Brookes, NZ Institute of Public Administration, 1981
 * "Rent Control: The UK Experience" in R. Albon (ed.) Rent Control-Costs and Consequences, CIS, Sydney, 1980 (with D.C. Stafford)
 * "Sistemas de sanidad centralizodos y descentralizados", El Medico, No.2: 25-30, 1980
 * "Formas de pago al medico", El Medico, No.7: 9-11, 1980
 * "Demasiados medicos", El Medico, No.13: 11-20, 1980
 * "Health Allocation Formulae: General Problems", in D.M. Salter (ed.), Health Planning and Resource Allocation, Institute of Health Administrators, Wellington, 1981, pp.75-81
 * "Resource Allocation in the Health Services Sector", in H.D. Banta (ed.), Resources for Health; Technology Assessment for Policy Making, Praeger, New York, pp.3-17, 1982
 * "Mental Health Priorities: a socio-economic viewpoint" in R.C. Nann, D.S. Butt and L. Ladrido-Ignacio (eds.), Mental Health, Cultural Values and Social Development, Dordrecht Holland 1983, pp.87-94
 * "A Two-centre Survey of Medication - part 1: the Barriers to Self and Professional Medication:, NZ Family Physician, 10:  56-73, 1983 (with W.L. Burt).
 * "A Two-centre Survey of Medication - part 2: Health care Utilisation", NZ Family Physician, 10:  120-126, 1983 (with W.L. Burt)
 * "A Two-centre Survey of Medication - part 3: Strategies of Illness", NZ Family Physician, 10:  187-192, 1983 (with W.L. Burt)
 * "The Barriers to Seeking Medication" in P.M. Tatchell (ed.) Economics and Health, Canberra, 1984, 1-26 (with W.L. Burt)
 * "Barriers to Medication", Swedish Journal of Social Administrative Pharmacy, (Supplement) 3: 87-101, 1984 (with W.L. Burt)
 * "Economics of Self-Medication", Social Policy and Administration, Vol.19, No.3, 218-241, 1985
 * "Economic Issues in the NZ Health System" in G. Teeling-Smith (ed.), Health Economics: Prospects for the Future, Croom Helm, 1987, pp.71-85
 * "The Economic Importance of Self-Care and the Role of Self-Medication" in The Significance of Self-Care in the National's Health, PAA, Sydney, pp.7-9, 1987
 * "Government and Health in the 1990's", in J. Hale (ed.) Government in the 1990's, University of Otago, pp.4-12, 1988.
 * "Which Economic Option for the NZ Health Service?", NZMJ, No.846, 101, 25 May P.2, pp.328-334, 1988
 * "Economics of Health - Challenges for the Immediate Future" NZMJ, No. 856, 101, 26 October P.2, pp.718-720, 1988
 * "Treatment or Prevention?" in D.G. Russell and D.H. Buisson (eds.) Lifestyle Report, Hilary Commission, Human Performance Associates, pp.264-269, 1989
 * Situation Analysis and Economic Assessment of the Philippines Health Services, Asian Development Bank, Manila, 1990, 45 pp (with N.J. Devlin).
 * "A commentary on Asian Health Care Case Study", in F.J. Pinto and J.C. Shah (eds.) Case Studies in Health Care, Princeton International Health Care Network and Mediq (London), pp.65-68, 1991.
 * "View from New Zealand - Towards quality consensus", Quality in Health Care, BMA 1994
 * "Health reform New Zealand style", Health Economics, Wiley, Vol. 3, No.2, pp.69-73, 1994
 * "Core Services and the New Zealand Health Reform", British Medical Bulletin, Vol.51, Vol. 51, No.4, 1995
 * “El racionamiento de la asistencia sanitaria: la situacion al cabo de 21 anos” in La Modernizacion de la Sanidad Publica en el Mundo, Arthur Anderson, Madrid, pp 174-83. 1997

Newspaper and magazine articles
Feature articles in Times (London), Daily Telegraph (London) (several), Times Review of Industry (London), Bankers Magazine (UK), Statist (London), Chemical Age (London), Mercurio (Rome), Commerce (India) (several), Listener (New Zealand) (several), AMA Gazette (Australia), NZ Herald, El Prais (Spain) etc.

Teaching

 * Public Finance: Macro and Micro Theory (years 1 and 2)
 * Social Policy (Honours):	Health Economics (Honours, Medical, Dental)
 * MBA Economics (Stanford); Welfare Economics

Notable publications

 * BMJ June 8 1963 vol i pp 1531-1533 which discusses the changing mix of beds in NHS hospitals
 * Social Science and Medicine in 1971 vol 5, pp 1-13