Austin Frakt

Austin B. Frakt is a health economist who holds positions with the Department of Veterans Affairs, Boston University, University of Pennsylvania and Harvard. He is widely known as the founder and co-editor-in-chief of The Incidental Economist. His academic research has been published in major academic journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine and Health Affairs. Frakt supports the use of mainstream media as a means of translating academic research into policy relevance[1] and has contributed to outlets including The New York Times and Bloomberg News. He serves on editorial boards of the academic journals Health Services Research and The American Journal of Managed Care and is a member of the New England Comparative Effectiveness Public Advisory Council.

Biography

Frakt attended Cornell University where he received his bachelor's degree in Applied and Engineering Physics in 1994. He received a master's degree and PhD in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After completing his PhD he spent four years working for a research and consulting firm. He founded The Incidental Economist in 2009.

gollark: I don't really like the current world in some ways either, but I think markets are generally a fairly okay system if managed in some ways.
gollark: Okay, continue.
gollark: Where are the actual incentives in anarchism? It seems that you basically just expect people to embark on giant construction projects and give resources out of the goodness of their hearts or something. In capitalism you actually have a decent direct reason to do that - your company can make more profit if it makes a new silicon fab or something, so you'll get money yourself, and you can get resources from other companies because you both get benefits for trading that way.
gollark: Well, that's just wrong.
gollark: You could do a *bit* of poor-people-saving.

References
  1. "Austin Frakt interview on blogging health research and policy". blog.academyhealth.org. Archived from the original on 2013-10-24. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
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