Choice and Public Policy

The Limits to Welfare Markets

• Author(s): Peter Taylor-Gooby,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 258
• ISBN_10: 1349263028
  ISBN_13: 9781349263028
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Economics / Theory , Political Science / Public Policy / General , Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy , Business & Economics / Public Finance , Business & Economics / Economics / General , Political Science / Public Affairs & Administration , Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare ,

Description:... 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.