Paying for Health, Education, and Housing

Paying for Health, Education, and Housing by Howard Glennerster

England is unusual in relying so heavily on central government to finance its social services. Citizens expect to be able to access services of similar standards wherever they live. This raises difficult theoretical and practical issues. How are the needs of different areas to be measured? How are the different costs of providing services in very different parts of the country to be assessed? This book reviews the economic theory that underpins thinking about the problem. It then traces the way governments have distributed resources from the end of the last century until today. It critically analyses current methods for three services - the National Health Service, schools, and housing.

This book is well written and is accessible to social policy undergraduates.. will be a useful addition to my undergraduate welfare finance reading list. It goes into more depth than Howard Glennerster's Paying for Welfare and covers a range of different issues. * Social Policy *

TONY TRAVERS is Director of the Greater London Group, London School of Economics.

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ISBN 13	9780199240784
ISBN 10	0199240787
Title	Paying for Health, Education, and Housing
Author	Howard Glennerster
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2000-08-03
Number of pages	252
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