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Book Synopsis Introducing Market Forces Into "public" Services by : Arthur Seldon
Download or read book Introducing Market Forces Into "public" Services written by Arthur Seldon and published by Collected Works of Arthur Seld. This book was released on 2005 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing Market Forces into "Public" Services is the fourth volume in Liberty Fund's The Collected Works of Arthur Seldon. It brings together six of Seldon's most pivotal essays that discuss his alternative proposals for paying for "public" services rather than through coercive taxation. Specifically, Seldon focuses on the varied use of vouchers and the choices people have regarding purchasing or receiving such public services as health care and education. The recurring theme, as noted in Colin Robinson's introduction, is that "non-market provision, financed by taxpayers, leads to a fatal disconnection between suppliers and consumers." Throughout this book, Seldon examines the options and obligations of the government as the "middle-man." Seldon creates a compelling case that through a return to market principles, "efficiency in the provision of these services will improve, and, above all, people will regain the incentive to provide for themselves instead of relying on the state." This volume is an invaluable resource for those embroiled in the public debate over such issues as education vouchers, managed health care, and overwhelming taxation. Arthur Seldon has been writing on classical liberal economics since the 1930s, when he was a student at the London School of Economics during Friedrich Hayek's time there. For over thirty years, from the late 1950s, he was Editorial Director of the London-based Institute of Economic Affairs, where his publishing program was one of the principal influences on governments all around the world, persuading them to liberalize their economies. His Collected Works in these seven volumes are a major contribution to classical liberal thought. Colin Robinson was a business economist for eleven years. He was then appointed to the Chair of Economics at the University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom, where he founded the Department of Economics and is now Emeritus Professor. He is the author of 23 books and over 150 scholarly articles and has edited many other books. For many years he has been associated with the Institute of Economic Affairs and from 1992 to 2002 he was the IEA's Editorial Director.
Book Synopsis Introduction of Market Forces in the Public Hospital Sector by :
Download or read book Introduction of Market Forces in the Public Hospital Sector written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Introduction of Market Forces in the Public Hospital Sector by : Melitta Jakab
Download or read book The Introduction of Market Forces in the Public Hospital Sector written by Melitta Jakab and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Discussion Paper was prepared as a background document for the Hospital Reform Module of the Joint Harvard/World Bank Institute Flagship Course on Health Sector Reform and Sustainable Financing. The Flagship course provides a practical review and update of current issues in health systems reform and financing for senior policy makers from developing countries. Since its inception, the Flagship course has reached more than 3,000 participants from over 50 countries. Heavy investment over the past 30 years has made the hospital sector the largest expenditure category of the health system in most developed and developing countries. Despite shifts in attention and emphasis toward primary care as a first point of contact for patients, in most countries, hospitals remain a critical link to health care, providing both advanced and basic care for the population. Often, they are the provider "of last resort" for the poor and critically ill. Although, it is clear that hospitals play a critical role in ensuring delivery of health services there is much less agreement about how to improve the efficiency and quality of care provided. This Discussion Paper provides insights into recent hospital reforms undertaken throughout the world, with an emphasis on organizational changes such as increased management autonomy, corporatization, and privatization. It provides some insights about these popular reform modalities from a review of the literature, reform experiences in other sectors and empirical evidence from hospital sector itself. The material presented tries to answer three questions: (a) what problems did this type of reform try to address; (b) what are the core elements of their design, implementation and evaluation; and, (c) is there any evidence that this type of reform is successful in addressing problems for which they were intended? While this paper focuses on issues related to the design of the reforms, the paper also reports the findings from a larger study that examined the implementation and evaluation of such reforms so that they will be available to countries that are considering venturing down this reform path.
Book Synopsis The Private Abuse of the Public Interest by : Lawrence D. Brown
Download or read book The Private Abuse of the Public Interest written by Lawrence D. Brown and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite George W. Bush’s professed opposition to big government, federal spending has increased under his watch more quickly than it did during the Clinton administration, and demands on government have continued to grow. Why? Lawrence Brown and Lawrence Jacobs show that conservative efforts to expand markets and shrink government often have the ironic effect of expanding government’s reach by creating problems that force legislators to enact new rules and regulations. Dismantling the flawed reasoning behind these attempts to cast markets and public power in opposing roles, The Private Abuse of the Public Interest urges citizens and policy makers to recognize that properly functioning markets presuppose the government’s ability to create, sustain, and repair them over time. The authors support their pragmatic approach with evidence drawn from in-depth analyses of education, transportation, and health care policies. In each policy area, initiatives such as school choice, deregulation of airlines and other carriers, and the promotion of managed care have introduced or enlarged the role of market forces with the aim of eliminating bureaucratic inefficiency. But in each case, the authors show, reality proved to be much more complex than market models predicted. This complexity has resulted in a political cycle—strikingly consistent across policy spheres—that culminates in public interventions to sustain markets while protecting citizens from their undesirable effects. Situating these case studies in the context of more than two hundred years of debate about the role of markets in society, Brown and Jacobs call for a renewed focus on public-private partnerships that recognize and respect each sector’s vital—and fundamentally complementary—role.
Download or read book Public Sector Market Forces written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis For-Profit Enterprise in Health Care by : Institute of Medicine
Download or read book For-Profit Enterprise in Health Care written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This book is] the most authoritative assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of recent trends toward the commercialization of health care," says Robert Pear of The New York Times. This major study by the Institute of Medicine examines virtually all aspects of for-profit health care in the United States, including the quality and availability of health care, the cost of medical care, access to financial capital, implications for education and research, and the fiduciary role of the physician. In addition to the report, the book contains 15 papers by experts in the field of for-profit health care covering a broad range of topicsâ€"from trends in the growth of major investor-owned hospital companies to the ethical issues in for-profit health care. "The report makes a lasting contribution to the health policy literature." â€"Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
Download or read book Managing to Care written by Ann James and published by Addison-Wesley Longman Limited. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on explanations from social policy, management and organisation theory, politics and professional practice, this provocative and controversial analysis provides an understanding of the nature of transition from a welfare state towards a market in health care, social care and other sectors of public service. Managing to Care seeks to establish the place of the user and the citizen in the design, commissioning and delivery of welfare. The author argues that managing in welfare is not about how to control, but how to enable; not about how to maximise profit, but how to enfranchise.
Download or read book Consumer Society written by Barry Smart and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electronic Inspection Copy available for instructors here What factors are contributing to the continuing growth in consumption of goods and services? At what point do the costs associated with consumerism begin to call our way of life into question? How are the problems of resource depletion, waste and pollution, and environmental impact being addressed? What is to be done about the consequences of our all-consuming way of life? Ever-increasing consumption and a relentless pursuit of growth in output are the twin pillars on which the modern economy and contemporary social life rest. But the consumer way of life is globally unsustainable. We can't all live the consumer dream. This comprehensive, lively and informative book will quickly be recognized as a benchmark in the field. It brings together a huge set of resources for thinking about the development of consumer culture, its defining features, and global consequences. Adept in handling a complex range of classical and contemporary theoretical sources, the book draws on an impressive range of comparative material and provides a variety of contemporary examples to inform and enhance understanding of our consuming way of life. Smart writes with verve and feeling and has produced a stimulating book that enlarges our understanding of consumer culture and provides a timely critical analysis of its consequences. Clear, engaging, and original this book will be essential reading for all those interested in and concerned about our global culture of consumption including researchers and students in sociology, politics, cultural studies, economics, and social geography.
Download or read book Public Sector Market Forces written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Market Forces and Local Public Service Jobs by : Kevin Doogan
Download or read book Market Forces and Local Public Service Jobs written by Kevin Doogan and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Connecting Knowledge and Performance in Public Services by : Kieran Walshe
Download or read book Connecting Knowledge and Performance in Public Services written by Kieran Walshe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The performance of public services is now more closely scrutinised than ever before. Every teacher, doctor, social worker or probation officer knows that behind them stands a restless army of overseers, equipped with a panoply of league tables, star ratings, user opinion surveys, performance indicators and the like with which to judge them. This increased scrutiny and performance measurement has undoubtedly produced improved public services. Yet we still have a limited understanding about how this information can be best used to bring about improvements in performance. What goes on inside the 'black box' of public organisations to move from information to action, or from 'knowing' to 'doing'? This book tackles this important question by reviewing a wide range of performance mechanisms. It explores how information about performance can be translated into improvements in services and, conversely, why this does not always happen in practice.
Download or read book Capitalism written by James Fulcher and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Very Short Introduction James Fulcher considers what capitalism is, the forms it can take around the world, and its history of crises and long-term development. In this new edition he discusses the fundamental impact of the global financial crises of 2007-8 and what it has meant for capitalism worldwide.
Book Synopsis Who Decides Who Decides? by : John Spiers
Download or read book Who Decides Who Decides? written by John Spiers and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes the case for 'ordinary' people to get the health and social care which the state has promised them for over 60 years but which has not been delivered. What is the case for choice? How can choice be made real for the individual? What impact can genuine, individually financially-empowered choice have on effective funding, purchasing, delivery, and outcomes? How can a genuine market grow and thrive? How can the quest for choice include the large numbers of NHS and social care staff on whom success depends? The book urges individual financial empowerment, through a life-long health savings account for all NHS and social services.
Author :International Monetary Fund Publisher :International Monetary Fund ISBN 13 :9781557758040 Total Pages :88 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (58 download)
Book Synopsis The Netherlands by : International Monetary Fund
Download or read book The Netherlands written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1999-07-23 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The striking turnaround in the Netherlands economic performance over the past decade and a half has attracted widespread attention. Emerging from deep recession and high unemployment in the early 1980s, the economy shifted to a pace of growth more rapid than that in neighboring economies, and posted a rise in employment close to that in the United States. However, a number of important problems remain to be tackled to further strengthen economic performance in the Netherlands. The material presented in this paper was originally prepared as background for discussions in the IMF Executive Board and takes account of developments through March 1999.
Book Synopsis Education and Sociology by : David Levinson
Download or read book Education and Sociology written by David Levinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. This single-volume reference provides readers and researchers with access to details on a wide range of topics and issues in the sociology of education. Entries cover both national and international perspectives and studies, as well as tackling controversial points in education today, including gender inequality, globalization, minorities, meritocracy, and more. This is a key, one-of-a-kind resource for all educational researchers and educators.
Book Synopsis Managing Public Services - Implementing Changes by : Tony L. Doherty
Download or read book Managing Public Services - Implementing Changes written by Tony L. Doherty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of a manager in a service organisation is not the same as the work of a manager in an organisation that manufactures goods. Managing Public Services, Implementing Changes – A Thoughtful Approach 2e, is for students and managers who intend to work in a service organisation whether it is owned publicly of privately. This book concentrates on how managers can change things for the better and explains ‘why’ as well as ‘how’. The second edition has been fully updated to address challenges facing public services with new material on managing cuts, managing risk, managing innovation, producing funding applications, Lean Management and process review. A new chapter on managing social enterprise and generating social capital has also been added. This text is both solidly practical and theoretically challenging and is supported by strong pedagogical features including: case studies and illustrative vignettes from public service managers working in Europe, Asia, Australia and the US; exercises and review questions. Students will develop learning skills that enable them to transfer their learning from one situation to another and thinking skills that enable them adapt the way that they apply their learning as circumstances change. This comprehensive text has been specifically designed and developed to meet the needs of students studying public services management at undergraduate and postgraduate level. It allows the reader to develop transferable skills in thinking and learning as they work through the book and gives greater awareness of the benefits of continuous learning for staff and managers.
Book Synopsis Introduction to Marketing by : Adrian Palmer
Download or read book Introduction to Marketing written by Adrian Palmer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new, innovative textbook provides a highly accessible introduction to the principles of marketing, presenting a theoretical foundation and illustrating the application of the theory through a wealth of case studies.
