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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public interest--Economic aspects.

Public interest.

Common good--Economic aspects.

Common good.

Public administration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Economic individualism and market-based values dominate today's policymaking and public management circlesùoften at the expense of the common good. In his new book, Barry Bozeman demonstrates the continuing need for public interest theory in government. Public Values and Public Interest offers a direct theoretical challenge to the utility of economic individualism, the prevailing political theory in the western world. The book's arguments are steeped in a practical and practicable theory that advances public interest as a viable and important measure in any analysis of policy or public adminis

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781589014015

1589014014

9781435627246

1435627245

OCLC:

652626230