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Public Policy and the Public Interest.

As a book on public policy, this book is unique in addressing explicitly the role of human nature. Only with a good understanding of human nature can policy makers address their foremost needs and anticipate how people may respond to specific designs in policy. This way policy makers can avoid "...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ho, Lok-sang
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Public Policy and the Public Interest; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Foreword 1; Foreword 2; Foreword 3; Preface; 1 Introduction: government as servant of the people; Part I The theory of public policy design; 2 What makes good public policy; 3 Human nature and public policy; 4 Institutional choice as ex ante choice; Part II Risk management; 5 Health care pricing and financing: in search of a better model; 6 The rule of law, tort law reform, and legal aid; 7 Bank deposit insurance; 8 Demographics and public pensions. 
505 8 |a Part III Resource allocation and redistribution9 Government or market?; 10 Education and cultural policy; 11 Taxes, social safety net, and redistribution; Part IV Public policy and "ecology" of the economy; 12 "Economic Ecology": the case of the Great Depression of the 1930s; 13 The global financial tsunami of 2008; 14 How a misguided housing policy can cause a deep recession: the case of Hong Kong; Epilogue; 15 Public policy in the new millennium; Notes; Bibliography; Index. 
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