Public or private goods? redefining res publica
Legitimized by the arguments of efficiency gains, public housing, pensions, unemployment insurance and health care are all being gradually privatized. In many countries, even the state's 'night-watchmen' role of providing security is offered by private prisons and security guards. In...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Northampton, MA :
Edward Elgar Pub
2017.
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| Colección: | Elgar ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b47134288*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Value based demarcation between the public and the private domain / Klaas van Egmond
- Part I: Traditional core tasks of the state: security
- 3. The fight against money laundering: a public task? / Joras Ferwerda
- 4. Natural disasters and (future) government debt / Ian Koetsier
- Part II: New core tasks: social security
- 5. Multiple pillars: objectives, risks and diversification options / Ian Koetsier
- 6. Pension provision: (still) a public task? / Florian Blank
- 7. Protection against unemployment - a res publica / Brigitte Unger
- 8. More health care or more beer? -a curious paradox of making some economic tasks a res publica / Frans van Waarden
- 9. ECEC: childcare markets in the Netherlands and England / Trudie Knijn and Jane Lewis
- Part III: Public goods
- 10. Housing policy and spatial inequality: recent insights from Vienna and Amsterdam / Gerlinde Gutheil-Knopp-Kirchwald and Justin Kadi
- 11. Funding of protected areas: a purely public task? / Grazia Bonvissuto
- 12. The government's role in conserving and financing cultural institutions / Michael Getzner
- 13. The income distribution as a public task: the redistributive preferences of (mis)informed voters / Daan van der Linde
- 14. Conclusions
- Index.
