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.

Book Information
ISBN 9780333731314
Author Peter Taylor-Gooby
Format Paperback
Page Count 258
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Weight(grams) 355g