Public values and public interest : counterbalancing economic individualism / Barry Bozeman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bozeman, Barry.

Series:

Public management and change

Public management and change series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public interest--Economic aspects.

Public interest.

Common good--Economic aspects.

Common good.

Public administration.

Physical Description:

ix, 214 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2007]

Summary:

Drawing on the concepts of the common good advocated by Aristotle, Saint Thomas Aquinas, John Locke, and John Dewey, Public Values and Public Interest offers a direct theoretical challenge to the "utility of economic individualism," the prevailing political theory in the western world. In constructing the case for adopting a new governmental paradigm based on what he terms "managing publicness," Bozeman demonstrates why economic indices alone fail to adequately value social choice in many cases. He explores the broad implications of privatization of a wide array of governmental services-among them Social Security, defense, prisons, and water supplies. Thoughtful, challenging, and timely, Public Values end Public Interest shows how the quest for fairness can once again play a full part in public policy debates and public administration.

Contents:

The privatization of public value

Economic individualism and the "publicness" of policies : cases and controversies

Economic individualism in public policy

Economic individualism in public management

Public interest theory and its problems

Toward a pragmatic public interest theory

Values, value theory, and collective action

Public values

Public value mapping : the case of genetically modified foods and the "terminator gene"

Managing publicness.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-206) and index.

ISBN:

9781589011779

1589011775

OCLC:

84903820