"Over the past three decades, market reforms have transformed public services such as education, health and care of the elderly. Whereas previous studies present markets as having similar and largely non-political effects, this book shows that political parties structure markets…
Examining a range of countries, periods and policy areas, provides an original explanation of market reforms in the industrialized world.
Community translation
by Ben Taïbi, Mustapha, Ozolins, Uldis
fromBloomsbury advances in translation
This book revisits the theory of social systems as a defence against anxiety first set out by Elliott Jaques and Isabel Menzies Lyth in papers which they published in 1955 and 1960, and which have been influential points of reference ever since. Menzies Lyth's study of the nursi…
Innovations in the care of the elderly
Neoclassical economics as-sumes that people are highly rational and can reasontheir way through even the most complex economic problems. In IndividualStrategy and Social Structure, Peyton Young argues for a more realistic view in which people have a limited understanding of thei…