| Choice and Public Policy: The Limits to Welfare Markets 1998 Edition Contributor(s): Taylor-Gooby, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 033373131X ISBN-13: 9780333731314 Publisher: MacMillan OUR PRICE: $56.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare - Business & Economics | Economics - Theory - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Policy |
| Dewey: 361 |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.71 lbs) 258 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Public policies increasingly emphasize active consumerism, entrepreneurship on the part of service providers and professionals, privatisation and an expanded role for markets. Choice and Public Policy draws on research by economists, psychologists, sociologists and public policy experts. The research demonstrates that the traditional rational choice model of economic behaviour is unsatisfactory in providing accounts of the way people choose in relation to work, saving, spending, investment and social welfare. It also shows that the public policies of active consumerism, public sector entrepreneurship and privatisation based on this approach are seriously flawed. |