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Choice and Public Policy

The Limits to Welfare Markets

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Peter Taylor-Gooby

    1. University of Kent, Canterbury, England

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Choice and the Policy Agenda

    • Peter Taylor-Gooby
    Pages 1-23

  3. Paying for Long-Term Care in the UK: Policy, Theory and Evidence

    • Gillian Parker, Harriet Clarke
    Pages 24-41

  4. Entrepreneurial Activity in the Public Sector: Evidence from UK Primary Care

    • Christine Ennew, Teresa Feighan, David Whynes
    Pages 42-61

  5. British Asian Entrepreneurs: Culture and Opportunity Structures

    • Tariq Modood, Hilary Metcalf, Satnam Virdee
    Pages 62-78

  6. What Drives Support for Higher Public Spending?

    • Lindsay Brook, Ian Preston, John Hall
    Pages 79-101

  7. Choices in Owner-Occupation

    • Moira Munro, Ruth Madigan, Clodagh Memery
    Pages 102-122

  8. Impulsive and Excessive Buying Behaviour

    • Helga Dittmar, Jane Beattie
    Pages 123-144

  9. Fair Pay and Pay Determination

    • Julie Dickinson, Lucia Sell-Trujillo
    Pages 145-163

  10. Morals and Markets: Some Theoretical and Policy Implications of Ethical Investing

    • Alan Lewis, Paul Webley, Adrian Winnett, Craig Mackenzie
    Pages 164-182

  11. Benefit Fraud and Citizenship

    • Hartley Dean
    Pages 183-200

  12. Choice and the New Paradigm in Policy

    • Peter Taylor-Gooby
    Pages 201-222

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 223-258
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Public policies increasingly emphasize active consumerism, entrepreneurship on the part of service providers and professionals, privatisation and an expanded role for markets. Choice and Public Policy 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 privatisation based on this approach are seriously flawed.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Kent, Canterbury, England

    Peter Taylor-Gooby

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Peter Taylor-Gooby is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Kent, UK. He chairs the British Academy New Paradigms in Public Policy Programme and the HEFCE Social Work and Social Policy Panel. His recent publications include New Paradigms in Public Policy, Reframing Social Citizenship, Risk in Social Science (with Jens Zinn), Ideas and the Welfare State, and New Risks, New Welfare.

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