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.
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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.
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List of Tables Preface Notes on the Contributors Choice and the Public Policy Agenda; P. Taylor-Gooby Paying for Long-Term Care in the UK: Theory, Policy and Evidence; G. Parker & H. Clarke Entrepreneurial Activity in the Public Sector: Evidence from UK Primary Care; C. Ennew, T. Fieghan & D. Whynes British Asian Entrepreneurs: Culture and Opportunity Structures; T. Modood, H. Metcalf & S. Virdee What Drives Support for Higher Public Spending?; L. Brook, I. Preston & J. Hall Choices in Owner-Occupation; M. Munro, R. Madigan & C. Memery Impulsive and Excessive Buying Behaviour; H. Dittmar & J. Beattie Fair Pay and Pay Determination; J. Dickinson & L. Sell-Trujillo Morals and Markets: Some Theoretical and Policy Implications of Ethical Investing; A. Lewis, P. Webley, A. Winnett & C. Mackenzie Benefit Fraud and Citizenship; H. Dean Choice and the New Paradigm in Policy; P. Taylor-Gooby Appendix: Projects in the Economic Beliefs and Behaviour Programme
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780333731314
Publisert
1998-03-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Palgrave Macmillan
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Forfatter