Other Invisible Hand Delivering Public Services Through Choice and Competition

Name: Other Invisible Hand Delivering Public Services Through Choice and Competition
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ISBN: 9780691129365

ISBN-10: 0691129363

ISBN-13: 9780691129365

Edition: 2007

Authors: Julian Le Grand, David Lipsey, Alain Enthoven

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How can we ensure high-quality public services such as health care and education? Governments spend huge amounts of public money on public services such as health, education, and social care, and yet the services that are actually delivered are often low quality, inefficiently run, unresponsive to their users, and inequitable in their distribution. In this book, Julian Le Grand argues that the best solution is to offer choice to users and to encourage competition among providers. Le Grand has just completed a period as policy advisor working within the British government at the highest levels, and from this he has gained evidence to support his earlier theoretical work and has experienced…

Book details

List price: $66.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 8/19/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.43" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Ends and Means



Choice and Competition



School Education



Health Care



New Ideas



The Politics of Choice


Afterwords


David Lipsey


Further Reading


Bibliography