Individual and social responsibility : child care, education, medical care, and long-term care in America / edited by Victor R. Fuchs.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fuchs, Victor R.

Series:

National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.

National Bureau of Economic Research conference report

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human services--United States--Congresses.

Human services.

Child care--United States--Congresses.

Child care.

Older people--Long-term care--United States--Congresses.

Older people.

Education--United States--Congresses.

Education.

Medical care--United States--Congresses.

Medical care.

Responsibility--United States--Congresses.

Responsibility.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Does government spend too little or too much on child care? How can education dollars be spent more efficiently? Should government's role in medical care increase or decrease? In this volume, social scientists, lawyers, and a physician explore the political, social, and economic forces that shape policies affecting human services. Four in-depth studies of human-service sectors-child care, education, medical care, and long-term care for the elderly-are followed by six cross-sector studies that stimulate new ways of thinking about human services through the application of economic theory, institutional analysis, and the history of social policy. The contributors include Kenneth J. Arrow, Martin Feldstein, Victor Fuchs, Alan M. Garber, Eric A. Hanushek, Christopher Jencks, Seymour Martin Lipset, Glenn Loury, Roger G. Noll, Paul M. Romer, Amartya Sen, and Theda Skocpol. This timely study sheds important light on the tension between individual and social responsibility, and will appeal to economists and other social scientists and policymakers concerned with social policy issues.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Overview

2. Child Care: Private Cost or Public Responsibility?

3. Rationalizing School Spending: Efficiency, Externalities, and Equity, and Their Connection to Rising Costs

4. Health Care Reform: The Clash of Goals, Facts, and Ideology

5. To Comfort Always: The Prospects of Expanded Social Responsibility for Long-Term Care

6. Consumption Externalities and the Financing of Social Services

7. Preferences, Promises, and the Politics of Entitlement

8. Information, Responsibility, and Human Services

9. The Changing Roles of Public, Private, and Nonprofit Enterprise in Education, Health Care, and Other Human Services

10. Government Intervention in the Markets for Education and Health Care: How and Why?

11. The Politics of American Social Policy, Past and Future

Contributors

Author Index

Subject Index

Notes:

"The papers ... presented and discussed at a National Bureau of Economic Research conference held at Stanford, California, on October 7-8, 1994"--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786611430986

9781281430984

1281430986

9780226267951

0226267954

OCLC:

476228544