Individual and social responsibility child care, education, medical care, and long-term care in America / [electronic resource] :
edited by Victor R. Fuchs.
- University of Chicago Press, 1996.
- 1 online resource (ix, 353 p.) : ill.
- A National Bureau of Economic Research Conference report .
- Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research) .
"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.