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Gaining ground : markets helping government / Clifford Winston.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winston, Clifford, 1952- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public-private sector cooperation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (308 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2021.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institute Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Focusing on ways that markets work with, rather than against, governments to enhance public welfare.The optimal mix of market forces and government intervention to allocate resources is one of the longest-standing problems facing human civilization.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Information
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Perspectives on Government and Markets and the Scope and Content of the Analysis
- Part I: Markets Helping Government Address Economic Goals
- Why Markets Can Help Government Address Economic Goals
- Protecting Consumers against Anticompetitive Behavior
- Protecting Consumers When Technology Appears to Prevent Price Competition
- Enabling Individuals to Make More-Informed Decisions
- Addressing Negative Externalities Efficiently
- Improving Public Production
- Encouraging Innovations by Firms and Individuals
- Part II: How Markets Can Help Government Accomplish Social Goals
- Why Markets Could Help Government Achieve Social Goals
- Reducing Poverty
- Fairness in Labor Markets
- Merit Goals
- Expanding the Role of Markets to Help Address Social Goals Policies
- Part III: Synthesizing the Evidence
- Government Policy Inefficiencies and Efforts to Explain Them
- Markets Helping Government
- Some Broader Implications of Markets Helping Government
- Part IV: Markets Helping Government
- Market and Government Responses to COVID-19: A Robustness Test
- Conclusion: Advancing the Perspective of Markets Helping Government
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 15, 2021).
- ISBN:
- 0-8157-5201-6
- 0-8157-3932-X
- OCLC:
- 1259506916
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