Individual and social responsibility : child care, education, medical care, and long-term care in America / edited by Victor R. Fuchs
- Bib ID:
- 2607222
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996
- ix, 353 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0226267865
- Series:
- Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)
- Full contents:
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- Introduction / Victor R. Fuchs
- 1. Overview / Timothy Taylor
- 2. Child Care: Private Cost or Public Responsibility? / Arleen Leibowitz
- Comment / Francine D. Blau
- 3. Rationalizing School Spending: Efficiency, Externalities, and Equity, and Their Connection to Rising Costs / Eric A. Hanushek
- Comment / Christopher Jencks
- 4. Health Care Reform: The Clash of Goals, Facts, and Ideology / Henry J. Aaron
- Comment / Martin Feldstein
- 5. To Comfort Always: The Prospects of Expanded Social Responsibility for Long-Term Care / Alan M. Garber
- Comment / John B. Shoven
- 6. Consumption Externalities and the Financing of Social Services / Robert H. Frank
- Comment / Amartya Sen
- 7. Preferences, Promises, and the Politics of Entitlement / Paul M. Romer
- Comment / Roger G. Noll
- 8. Information, Responsibility, and Human Services / Kenneth J. Arrow
- Comment / Glenn C. Loury.
- 9. The Changing Roles of Public, Private, and Nonprofit Enterprise in Education, Health Care, and Other Human Services / Henry Hansmann
- Comment / Joseph A. Grundfest
- 10. Government Intervention in the Markets for Education and Health Care: How and Why? / James M. Poterba
- Comment / Richard J. Zeckhauser
- 11. The Politics of American Social Policy, Past and Future / Theda Skocpol
- Comment / Seymour Martin Lipset.
- Notes:
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- "The papers ... presented and discussed at a National Bureau of Economic Research conference held at Stanford, California, on October 7-8, 1994"--Acknowledgments.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Fuchs, Victor R
- Copyright:
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