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Public services and the service economy
 — individualism and the choice agenda
Author(s)Bill Jordan
Journal titleJournal of Social Policy, vol 35, part 1, January 2006
Pagespp 143-162
Sourcehttp://www.journals.cambridge.org
KeywordsServices ; Social welfare ; Consumer choice ; Economics ; Social policy ; Theory.
AnnotationHow are services different from goods? This article argues that services have been under-theorised in both welfare economics and social policy analysis. Programmes for opening up public services for competition and choice, and for widening the scope for "targeted" services treat them as analogous to goods. This ignores relational and contextual elements in human well-being, and the potentially crucial role of services in meeting such needs. The author calls for co-operation between economists and social policy analysts in filling this gap in welfare theory. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-060209202 A
ClassmarkI: TY: WYC: W: TM2: 4D

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