Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. I. Introduction and Overview
5. Introduction 3
6. 1. Overview 13
7. II. Human Services: Organization, Finance, and Production
8. 2. Child Care: Private Cost or Public Responsibility? 33
9. 3. Rationalizing School Spending: Efficiency, Externalities, and Equity, and Their Connection to Rising Costs 59
10. 4. Health Care Reform: The Clash of Goals, Facts, and Ideology 107
11. 5. To Comfort Always: The Prospects of Expanded Social Responsibility for Long-Term Care 143
12. III. Human Services: Theoretical and Institutional Perspectives
13. 6. Consumption Externalities and the Financing of Social Services 175
14. 7. Preferences, Promises, and the Politics of Entitlement 195
15. 8. Information, Responsibility, and Human Services 229
16. 9. The Changing Roles of Public, Private, and Nonprofit Enterprise in Education, Health Care, and Other Human Services 245
17. 10. Government Intervention in the Markets for Education and Health Care: How and Why? 277
18. 11. The Politics of American Social Policy, Past and Future 309
19. Contributors 341
20. Author Index 343
21. Subject Index 349