Private Markets and Public Intervention: A Primer for Policy Designers / Edition 1

by Harvey Averch

Overview

Averch describes and analyzes common strategies for solving problems in public policy. The strategies discussed include the use of markets, bureaus, regulation, planning and budgeting, benefit-cost, systems analysis, and evaluation. He examines the historical development of each strategy; describes how each strategy would ideally work; explains the necessary or sufficient conditions that permit each strategy to work; lists the potential failures of each strategy; and provides a judgment or appraisal of each strategy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822954378
Publisher:	University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date:	12/28/1990
Series:	Series in Policy and Institutional Studies
Edition description:	1
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Harvey Averch is professor of public administration at Florida International University.

Editorial Reviews

“Averch does an outstanding job of presenting the strengths and weaknesses of different strategies for designing public policy. . . . An excellent upper level text. . . . Students will come away with a good sense of the complexity of the problem.”
—Joel D. Aberbach

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