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Choice and Public Policy: The Limits to Welfare Markets

Taylor-Gooby, Peter, ed. (1998) Choice and Public Policy: The Limits to Welfare Markets. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 280 pp. ISBN 978-0-333-67820-6. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:38367)

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Abstract

Public policies increasingly emphasize active consumerism, entrepreneurship on the part of service providers and professionals, privatization, and an expanded role for markets. This text draws on research by economists, psychologists, sociologists and public policy experts. The research demonstrates that the traditional rational choice model of economic behaviour is unsatisfactory in providing accounts of the way people choose in relation to work, saving, spending, investment and social welfare. It also shows that the public policies of active consumerism, public sector entrepreneurship, and privatization based on this approach may be flawed.

Item Type: Edited book
Subjects: H Social Sciences
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research
Depositing User: Mita Mondal
Date Deposited: 19 Feb 2014 13:34 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:14 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/38367 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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