ABSTRACT
Eli Ginzberg has said that as early as 1934, with the completion of his doctoral dissertation, The House of Adam Smith, he was convinced that for economics to be meaningful, it had to be assessed in relation to politics, property, power, and people. Few have held as consistently or as productively to an early conviction as Ginzberg has, especially over a career that has thus far spanned some seven decades. In the process of examining myriad issues in human resources, the roles of government, and medicine and health, he has become an extraordinarily productive icon of a special brand of utilitarian economics, one that has in fact helped to define the public intellectual. It is a privilege to share in honoring him in this festschrift.
