| Description |
ix, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
A National Bureau of Economic Research Conference report |
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Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)
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| Note |
"The papers ... presented and discussed at a National Bureau of Economic Research conference held at Stanford, California, on October 7-8, 1994"--Acknowledgments. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Child care : private cost or public responsibility? / Arleen Leibowitz -- Rationalizing school spending : efficiency, externalities, and equity, and their connection to rising costs / Eric A. Hanushek -- Health care reform : the clash of goals, facts, and ideology / Henry J. Aaron -- To comfort always : the prospects of expanded social responsibility for long-term care / Alan M. Garber -- Consumption externalities and the financing of social services / Robert H. Frank |
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Preferences, promises, and the politics of entitlement / Paul M. Romer -- Information, responsibility, and human services / Kenneth J. Arrow -- The changing roles of public, private, and nonprofit enterprise in education, health care, and other human services / Henry Hansmann -- Government intervention in the markets for education and health care : how and why? / James M. Poterba -- The politics of American social policy, past and future / Theda Skocpol. |
| Subject |
Human services -- United States -- Congresses.
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Child care -- United States -- Congresses.
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Older people -- Long-term care -- United States -- Congresses.
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Education -- United States -- Congresses.
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Medical care -- United States -- Congresses.
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Responsibility -- United States -- Congresses.
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| Added Author |
Fuchs, Victor R.
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| ISBN |
0226267865 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780226267869 cloth alkaline paper |
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