Malcolm Sparrow

Malcolm K. Sparrow is a British academic. He is Professor of the Practice of Public Management at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is the faculty chair of the school’s executive program “Strategic Management of Regulatory and Enforcement Agencies.”... In his book License to Steal, Sparrow conservatively estimated that the billing fraud in the health care industry is 10% of all expenses or about $360 billion this year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Sparrow

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https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.16.1.222

recent publications include:

• Fundamentals of Regulatory Design (Kindle Direct Publishing, 2020).
• Handcuffed: What Holds Policing Back & the Keys to Reform (Brookings Press, 2016).
• The Character of Harms: Operational Challenges in Control (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
• The Regulatory Craft: Controlling Risks, Solving Problems, and Managing Compliance (Brookings Press, 2000).
• License to Steal: How Fraud Bleeds America's Health Care System (Westview Press, 2000).