Alain Enthoven

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Alain C. Enthoven (born September 10, 1930) [1] is an American economist. He was a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1965, and from 1965 to 1969, he was the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis. Currently, he is Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management, Emeritus, at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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Enthoven received his B.A. from Stanford University in 1952, an M.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 1954, and a Ph.D. from MIT in 1956. He was a RAND Corporation economist between 1956 and 1960.

Enthoven has argued that integrated delivery systems — networks of health care organizations under a parent holding company that provide a continuum of health care services — align incentives and resources better than most healthcare delivery systems, leading to improved medical care quality while controlling costs. [2]

He is a member of the Institute of Medicine, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a former Rhodes scholar.

In government and academia he has mentored public officials, faculty, and policy researchers including Richard Zeckhauser, Sara Singer [3] [4] , and Tim McDonald [5] .

He features in the Adam Curtis documentary The Trap .

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  1. "Curriculum Vitae: Alain C. Enthoven" (PDF). Stanford University. June 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 11, 2007.
  2. "Integrated systems improve medical care, control costs, according to Enthoven". October 26, 2005. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
  3. Enthoven, Alain C.; Singer, Sara J. (January 1995). "Market-Based Reform: What to Regulate and by Whom". Health Affairs. 14 (1): 105–119. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.14.1.105. ISSN   0278-2715.
  4. "Markets and Collective Action in Regulating Managed Care". Stanford Graduate School of Business. Retrieved July 1, 2025.
  5. McDonald, Tim (January 29, 2024). Beginning with System Transformation in Mind: Toward a Theory of Policy Leadership for Systemic Challenges (Report).