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Individual and social responsibility : child care, education, medical care, and long-term care in America /

Does government spend too little or too much on child care? How can education dollars be spent more efficiently? Should government's role in medical care increase or decrease? In this volume, social scientists, lawyers, and a physician explore the political, social, and economic forces that sha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fuchs, Victor R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Colección:Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Does government spend too little or too much on child care? How can education dollars be spent more efficiently? Should government's role in medical care increase or decrease? In this volume, social scientists, lawyers, and a physician explore the political, social, and economic forces that shape policies affecting human services. Four in-depth studies of human-service sectors?child care, education, medical care, and long-term care for the elderly?are followed by six cross-sector studies that stimulate new ways of thinking about human services through the application of economic theory, instit.
Notas:"The papers ... presented and discussed at a National Bureau of Economic Research conference held at Stanford, California, on October 7-8, 1994"--Acknowledgments
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 353 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9780226267951
0226267954