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Equity and Choice: An Essay in Economics and Applied Philosophy
Offering a new answer to an age-old problem: the meaning of a just or equitable distribution of resources, Julian Le Grand examines the principal interpretations of equity used by economists and political philosophers. He argues that none captures the essence of the term as well as an alternative co... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1991 -
The Strategy of Equality: Redistribution and the Social Services (Routledge Library Editions: Welfare and the State #13)
Originally published in 1982 The Strategy of Equality examines public expenditure on the social services as a strategy for promoting social equality. Today there is a widespread belief that the strategy has worked and that public spending on the social services primarily benefits those less well off... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1982 -
Government Paternalism
by Julian Le Grand • Bill NewShould governments save people from themselves? Do governments have the right to influence citizens' behavior related to smoking tobacco, eating too much, not saving enough, drinking alcohol, or taking marijuana--or does this create a nanny state, leading to infantilization, demotivation, and breach... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Health Care and Cost Containment in the European Union (Routledge Revivals)
First published in 1999, this volume aims to describe and analyse the experience of cost containment in Europe over the last fifteen years in order to understand that experience and to determine, as best we can, which methods were successful and which were not. Part I provides an overview of healthc... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
Privatisation and the Welfare State (Routledge Library Editions: Welfare and the State #12)
Originally published in 1984, Privatisation and the Welfare State brings together a distinguished set of experts on the Welfare State and its main policy areas of health care, housing, education and transport. Each chapter provides some much-needed analysis of privatisation policies in areas where, ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1984 -
Not Only the Poor: The Middle Classes and the Welfare State (Routledge Library Editions: Welfare and the State #5)
Originally published in 1987 Not Only the Poor explores the self-interested involvement of the non-poor in the welfare state, particularly the middle class. Using evidence from Britain, America, and Australia, they show that the non-poor were crucial in the founding of the welfare state, and in all ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1987 -
The Other Invisible Hand
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 t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
The State and Social Welfare, 1997: International Studies on Social Insurance and Retirement, Employment, Family Policy and Health Care (Routledge Revivals #Vol. 4)
First published in 1998, this volume contains an edited selection of papers presented at the Fifth International Research Seminar on ‘Issues in Social Security’, held on 14-17 June 1997 in Sweden by the Foundation for International Studies on Social Security (FISS) in memory of Brian Abel-Smith. The... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1998 -
Socialism in a Cold Climate (Routledge Revivals)
by Michael Mann • Julian Le Grand • Doreen Massey • Jane Lewis • Colin Crouch • Meghnad Desai • Tony Atkinson • Chris Husbands • Howard Glennerster • Robert Power • Mike ReddinFirst published in 1983, this important and stimulating book is a thoughtful contribution to the debate about the first steps that needed to be taken to build a socialist society in the 1980s. It covers topics as diverse as concepts of equality and fairness, sexual discrimination, economic policy, h... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1983