Choice and public policy : the limits to welfare markets / edited by Peter Taylor-Gooby.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Taylor-Gooby, Peter.

Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social choice--Great Britain.

Social choice.

Public welfare--Contracting out--Great Britain.

Public welfare.

Privatization--Great Britain.

Privatization.

Public welfare--Contracting out.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Social policy.

Social policy.

Physical Description:

xv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Economic Beliefs and Behaviour

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press ; New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Summary:

The choices we make in everyday life and the choices made by firms and governments in economic planning have become at once more complex and more decisive in their impact. Working life has become more flexible and insecure. Many people have more money to spend and more choices to make while some do not. Public services are increasingly organized according to a market logic. The pressures of international competition are affecting more aspects of commercial and industrial life. This book draws on economics, psychology, sociology and public policy analysis to demonstrate that the rational choice through a calculative deliberation between alternatives and respond to the incentives of price and opportunity on the basis of self-interest, and which underlies much contemporary public policy-making, is misleading. The new policies of active consumerism, privatization and the expansion of markets are seriously flawed.

Contents:

1 Choice and the Policy Agenda / Peter Taylor-Gooby 1

2 Paying for Long-Term Care in the UK: Policy, Theory and Evidence / Gillian Parker, Harriet Clarke 24

3 Entrepreneurial Activity in the Public Sector: Evidence from UK Primary Care / Christine Ennew, Teresa Feighan, David Whynes 42

4 British Asian Entrepreneurs: Culture and Opportunity Structures / Tariq Modood, Hilary Metcalf, Satnam Virdee 62

5 What Drives Support for Higher Public Spending? / Lindsay Brook, Ian Preston, John Hall 79

6 Choices in Owner-Occupation / Moira Munro, Ruth Madigan, Clodagh Memery 102

7 Impulsive and Excessive Buying Behaviour / Helga Dittmar, Jane Beattie 123

8 Fair Pay and Pay Determination / Julie Dickinson, Lucia Sell-Trujillo 145

9 Morals and Markets: Some Theoretical and Policy Implications of Ethical Investing / Alan Lewis, Paul Webley, Adrian Winnett, Craig Mackenzie 164

10 Benefit Fraud and Citizenship / Hartley Dean 183

11 Choice and the New Paradigm in Policy / Peter Taylor-Gooby 201

Appendix The 'Economics Beliefs and Behaviour' Programme-Projects, Researchers and Publications 223.

Notes:

"In association with Economic Beliefs and Behaviour, an ESRC Research Programme."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-246) and index.

ISBN:

0312212623

OCLC:

39377671