Understanding the Private–Public Divide: Markets, Governments, and Time Horizons - Tapa blanda

Offer, Avner

 
9781108791663: Understanding the Private–Public Divide: Markets, Governments, and Time Horizons
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ISBN 10: 1108791662 ISBN 13: 9781108791663
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2022

Sinopsis

Markets are taken as the norm in economics and in much of political and media discourse. But if markets are superior why does the public sector remain so large? Avner Offer provides a distinctive new account of the effective temporal limits on private, public, and social activity. Understanding the Private–Public Divide accounts for the division of labour between business and the public sector, how it changes over time, where the boundaries ought to run, and the harm that follows if they are violated. He explains how finance forces markets to focus on short-term objectives and why business requires special privileges in return for long-term commitment. He shows how a private sector policy bias leads to inequality, insecurity, and corruption. Integrity used to be the norm and it can be achieved again. Only governments can manage uncertainty in the long-term interests of society, as shown by the challenge of climate change.

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Avner Offer is Chichele Professor Emeritus of Economic History at Oxford University, Fellow of All Souls College and the British Academy. His books include The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain Since 1950 (2006) and the co-authored The Nobel Factor: The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy, and the Market Turn (2016).

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Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
2022
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1108791662
ISBN 13 
9781108791663
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Número de páginas
242
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