Individual and social responsibility
Subtitle: child care, education, medical care, and long-term care in America
By: edited by Victor R. Fuchs.
Contributors: Fuchs, Victor R.
Series: A National Bureau of Economic Research Conference report; Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
Subjects: Human services -- United States -- Congresses.; Child care -- United States -- Congresses.; Older people -- Long-term care -- United States -- Congresses.; Education -- United States -- Congresses.; Medical care -- United States -- Congresses.; Responsibility -- United States -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: 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, institutional analysis, and the history of social policy.

This timely study sheds important light on the tension between individual and social responsibility, and will appeal to economists and other social scientists and policy-makers concerned with social policy issues.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
"The papers ... presented and discussed at a National Bureau of Economic Research conference held at Stanford, California, on October 7-8, 1994"--Acknowledgments.