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Individual and social responsibility [electronic resource] : child care, education, medical care, and long-term care in America / edited by Victor R. Fuchs.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 353 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9780226267951 (electronic bk.)
  • 0226267954 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Individual and social responsibility.DDC classification:
  • 361.973 22
LOC classification:
  • HV91 .I463 1996eb
Other classification:
  • 79.10
Online resources:
Contents:
Individual and Social Responsibility; Contents; Acknowledgments; I. Introduction and Overview; II. Human Services: Organization, Finance, and Production; III. Human Services: Theoretical and Institutional Perspectives; Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index;
Summary: 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.
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ელ.რესურსი ელ.რესურსი ეროვნული სამეცნიერო ბიბლიოთეკა 1 [37+614.39](73)(063) (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

"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.

Individual and Social Responsibility; Contents; Acknowledgments; I. Introduction and Overview; II. Human Services: Organization, Finance, and Production; III. Human Services: Theoretical and Institutional Perspectives; Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index;

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.

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