Professor
Emeritus
Wayne State
University, Detroit, MI 48202
(248)
996-2050
Email: allen.goodman@wayne.edu
Fall
2024
NeptuneStardust
I retired as Professor
of Economics at Wayne State University in May 2022.
I continue to conduct
research in health and housing economics.
My research
interests, papers, and presentations are located here.
My research, funded by the Michigan Health Endowment
Foundation starting April 1, 2017, has sought to improve care in Skilled
Nursing Facilities (SNFs) through improved information
systems for residents/caregivers/administrators. Contact me for more details.
The
Economics of Health and Health Care 9th edition (Sherman Folland z''l, Allen C. Goodman,
Miron Stano, and Shooshan Danagoulian), with Instructor's Guide and Study
Questions,
came out in February
2024, and is available for purchase and adoption.
In 2021, I co-edited
the Handbook on Teaching
Health Economics: Best Practices with Maia Platt (z''l).
This volume features contributors
from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Australia.
Other recent work with Brent Smith investigates the
economics of medical real estate.
COVID-19 Blog
In
March 2020, I started a blog of economic perspectives on COVID-19.
After
128 posts (June 6, 2023), I reached a close. The individual posts are listed
below.
A compendium of all of the posts is available at C-19-Blog.
COVID-19 - Like a
Massive Tax (
Public Health,
Epidemics, and Economics - 10 out of 10? (
Test Everybody? (
Martin
Arrowsmith in 2020 - Dealing with Plagues (
Coronavirus Resource
Center -
Forget the Great
Recession - Think the Great Depression (
Back by Easter?
Marginal Benefits and Marginal Costs (
Testing 2 - Finding the
Denominator, Finding the Location (
Manufacturing
Through COVID-19 - Serious Problems (March 28, 2020)
The Pharmaceutical Industry -
Watch What You Listen For (
Numbers Matter - Death Estimates and False
Negatives (
How Many Ventilators
is Enough? (
Together and Apart -
Economies of Scale and COVID-19 (
Economic Models of COVID-19:
Taxes and Cigars (
in
Contexts,
The Wisconsin
Poll Tax (
Who Can Re-Open -
COVID-19 Cap and Trade (
What Is It About
Epidemics that Business Leaders Do not Understand?
(
How Should We Re-Open?
(
How Should We Reopen? Part 2 - Lessons
from the Film Industry (
COVID-19 and the Cities
(
Distributing
Vaccines - The Economics are Simple (
Re-Opening
Universities (
The Shape of the
Economy (
Prioritizing
Testing and Workplace Re-opening Under COVID-19
Risk and Uncertainty - What
We Have is Uncertainty (
The Health Externality (
Aggregate Demand Again (May 9,
2020)
We Need a Cost-Effective Vaccine (
Flattening the Curve, and then Watching It
Spike (
Race to the Top, or Race to the Bottom (
Clark Clifford in 2020 (
Memorial Day - 2020 (
Says Law and the Macroeconomics of 2020 in the Era
of COVID-19 (
Searching for the Number (
COVID-19 Three Months In: Random Thoughts (
How Should We Reopen? Round 3 - The Health ID Card (
The Distributional Aspects of COVID-19
(June 19, 2020)
The Right Amount of Care (June 25, 2020)
All it Took
Was One Packed Bar (June 28, 2020)
Underinvestment in Education - The
COVID-19 Story (July 2, 2020)
How Should We Re-Open? July 4 Edition
(July 4, 2020)
COVID-19 is a Tax - and a Big One (July 11,
2020)
The States and the Great Lockdown (July
17, 2020)
Opening Schools (July 25, 2020)
Forget the Great Recession: Redux
(August 1, 2020)
Despite the Uptick, Michigan Drops (August 4,
2020)
Surprises in the Year of COVID-19 (August 9,
2020)
College Football? (August 11, 2020)
Deaths Above Normal (August 14, 2020)
Somewhat Misleading Statistics - The COVID-19
Tax (August 17, 2020)
Three Cheers for Michigan State (August 20,
2020)
Bad Incentives (August 24, 2020)
Labor Day Weekend 2020 (September 4,
2020)
The ULINE Catalog of Everything (September 5,
2020). Guest blog by Max Goldstein.
He Knew (September 10, 2020)
The Empire Struck Back (September 16, 2020)
200,000 Deaths (September 22, 2020)
Believing Science (September 25, 2020)
The President is Infected (October 2, 2020)
Seatbelts and Masks (October 5, 2020)
The Failed Coup in Michigan (October 12, 2020)
The Great Barrington Mistake (October 14, 2020)
The COVID-19 Tax: A View from Michigan (October
26, 2020)
Hopeful News on a Vaccine (November 10, 2020)
Thanksgiving Day - Stopping COVID-19 Pollution
(November 21, 2020)
COVID-19 Pollution and Growth (November 26, 2020)
The Moon and the Ghetto - After 50 Years (December
2, 2020)
College - End of Fall Term 2020 (December 14,
2020)
How to Allocate the Vaccine (December 20, 2020)
Capital Losses and a Domestic Marshall Plan
(December 25, 2020)
The Economy in the New Year (January 1, 2021)
The Vaccination Mess - and a Proposed Solution
(January 10, 2021)
A COVID-19 Report Card (January 19, 2021)
The Federalized
Vaccine (January
23, 2021)
How About Rent Vouchers
- Big Time This Time? (February 3, 2021)
Happy Valentine's Day
(February 10, 2021)
Allocation When Markets
Cannot Be Used (February 20, 2021)
The Right Amount of Care,
Revisited (February 22, 2021)
The New Revisionism on
In-Class Education During COVID-19 (March 3, 2021)
Time to Remain Patient
(March 8, 2021)
Nursing Homes and COVID-19
(March 13, 2021)
Second Dose (March 18,
2021)
The Benefits of Vaccine
Passports Far Outweigh the Costs (March 25, 2021)
Michigan is Spiking Again
(April 1, 2021)
Wave 4 in Michigan (April 8,
2021)
Trying to Stop a Runaway
Train (April 16, 2021)
How Much Longer Will We
Need Masks? (April 22, 2021)
The Shape of the Economy - One
Year Later (April 30, 2021)
It's the Aerosols, Stupid
(May 9, 2021)
Strange CDC Decisions on
Vaccine and Mask Mandates (May 16, 2021)
Slouching Toward a Market
Vaccination Solution (May 23, 2021)
Reckoning (May 31, 2021)
Easy and Hard Numbers
(June 6, 2021)
U.S. Life Expectancies Plummeted
in 2020 (June 27, 2021)
Normalcy (July 5, 2021)
Trillions Greater Than
Billions (July 15, 2021)
Why Payments Are Better than
Lotteries (July 25, 2021)
The Elusive Herd Immunity
(August 4, 2021)
The COVID-19 Economics of
Community (August 12, 2021)
Dangerous Behavior (August
21, 2021)
Governor Whitmer Wants to
Win Reelection (August 25, 2021)
Negotiating the Next Stage
of COVID-19 (August 30, 2021)
Social Security and COVID-19
(September 1, 2021)
Controlled and Natural
Experiments (September 5, 2021), with Sara Goodman MPH.
Simchot Again (September 17, 2021)
Convention-2021
(September 29, 2021)
Supply Chain Woes (October 9,
2021)
How Good Are the Vaccines?
(October 20, 2021)
Rising Prices Do Not
Necessarily Mean Inflation (October 27, 2021)
Professional Conferences
During a Pandemic (November 1, 2021), Guest blog by Sara Goodman MPH.
COVID-19 Era Education:
Long-Term Impacts (November 7, 2021)
The Pandemic as a War
(November 14, 2021)
Lockdowns Again:
Legislating COVID (November 21, 2021)
Nursing Homes Open Doors Wide to
Visitors (November 28, 2021)
Post-COVID Syndrome (December
7, 2021)
News of the Week (December 14,
2021)
Fully Vaccinated? (December
30, 2021)
Delta, and then Omicron
(January 9, 2022)
The Nursing Shortage During
COVID-19 (January 24, 2022)
Finishing the Second Year
(February 2, 2022)
Rewriting Pandemic Economics
(February 11, 2022)
Is it Over? (February 24,
2022)
Two Years of Pandemic: An
Accounting (March 13, 2022)
One Million Deaths
(March 23, 2022)
Risk and Uncertainty Once
Again (April 18, 2022)
This is the Way the COVID Ends
(May 3, 2022)
Is This Time Different?
(May 14, 2022)
Deaths of the Elderly
(May 20, 2022)
A Pause, for Now (June 4,
2022)
Now, Its Personal (June
23, 2022)
Endemic Was Not Supposed to Be
This Way (August 23, 2022)
Epilogue (June 6, 2023)
*****
I retired as Professor of Economics at
Wayne State University in May 2022.
I continue to conduct research in health
and housing economics.
My research interests, papers,
and presentations are located here.
My
research, funded by the Michigan Health Endowment Foundation starting April 1,
2017, has sought to improve care in Skilled
Nursing
Facilities (SNFs) through improved information systems for
residents/caregivers/administrators. Contact me for more details.
The
Economics of Health and Health Care 9th edition
(Sherman Folland
z''l, Allen
C. Goodman,
Miron Stano, and Shooshan Danagoulian), with Instructor's Guide and Study Questions,
is in print as of February 2024, and
available for purchase.
In 2021, I
co-edited the Handbook on Teaching Health Economics: Best
Practices
with Maia Platt (z''l).
This
volume features contributors from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Australia.
Since July 2019, the Wayne State
Economics Department has participated in the City
of Detroit University Economic Analysis Partnership:
University of Michigan (Gabriel Ehrlich
PI); Wayne State University (Allen C. Goodman PI); Michigan State University
(Eric Scorsone PI)
This unique collaboration has provided
economic consulting and forecasting services to the City of Detroit.
*****
Policy and Research Presentations
March 10, 2004 Detroit News Op-Ed piece Detroit
Housing Rebound Needs Safe Streets, Good Schools.
January 15, 2008 participation in a
podcast on the BBC regarding the
Healthcare System in Detroit and the U.S.
A policy proposal - Fixing Part of the
Mortgage Meltdown,
Michigan Stem Cell Economics
Study, August 2008
A
"The
Economics of Health Care Reform", presented October 25, 2011 at the Adult
Learning Institute.
Is there an S in Urban Housing Supply?
or What on Earth Happened in Detroit? Click here.
Goodman, Goodman, Goodman, and Goodman
"A Few Goodmen" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QktKLTLyLIM) presented at 2015 AEA Meetings
Interview
with Stephen Henderson on WDET, April 6, 2016, about Differential Taxation
for Public Services in
*****
Graduate Studies at
For
information on application/admission to our Economics Department programs,
please contact
Prof.
Michael Belzer at michael.h.belzer@wayne.edu.
*****
Jeopardy! and Trivia
RIP
Alex Trebek, November 8, 2020.
On
June 13, 2008. I competed on Jeopardy! Others have written blogs about
their adventures.
I
decided to do something else! I hope you like it.
On
October 1, 2014, my daughter Sara also competed. She did better than Dad.
Sara
and I are currently Llamas in the Cove League of Learned League.
*** Peace Corps
***
Sara started a Peace Corps career in
Burkina Faso in June 2011, returning in August 2013.
Her experiences were exciting and
unusual. She has continued her blog during her return.
Sara received her
PhD in public health at
The University of California-Irvine in June 2023. She is currently
a research epidemiologist
at Stanford University.
Classes
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Prerequisites: This advanced course on the allocation
of health care resources concentrates on demand and supply of health care. It
looks at the roles of hospitals, physicians, and health insurance; market
imperfections, government policies, and their role in economics of health
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Dissertation Candidacy (Graduate) Open only to Departmental Dissertation
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To contact me
via e-mail click allen.goodman@wayne.edu
updated September 6, 2024
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