UID:
almafu_9959242837302883
Format:
1 online resource (366 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-281-43098-6
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9786611430986
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0-226-26795-4
Series Statement:
National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Content:
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.
Note:
"The papers ... presented and discussed at a National Bureau of Economic Research conference held at Stanford, California, on October 7-8, 1994"--Acknowledgments.
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Front matter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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1. Overview --
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2. Child Care: Private Cost or Public Responsibility? --
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3. Rationalizing School Spending: Efficiency, Externalities, and Equity, and Their Connection to Rising Costs --
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4. Health Care Reform: The Clash of Goals, Facts, and Ideology --
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5. To Comfort Always: The Prospects of Expanded Social Responsibility for Long-Term Care --
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6. Consumption Externalities and the Financing of Social Services --
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7. Preferences, Promises, and the Politics of Entitlement --
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8. Information, Responsibility, and Human Services --
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9. The Changing Roles of Public, Private, and Nonprofit Enterprise in Education, Health Care, and Other Human Services --
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10. Government Intervention in the Markets for Education and Health Care: How and Why? --
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11. The Politics of American Social Policy, Past and Future --
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Contributors --
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Author Index --
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Subject Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-226-26786-5
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
DOI:
10.7208/9780226267951
