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Health Care and Public Policy
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David A Reisman
Health care is absorbing an increasing share of resources in all countries. It is the task of public policy to ensure that the nation secures good quality attention at an affordable price. This book, distinguishing clearly between health status and health care, examines the ways in which governments can keep down morbidity and mortality while also ...
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Economic Thought and Political Theory
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David A Reisman
People live by ideas which help them to make sense of their experiences. Yet different people live by different ideas. Without an attempt to communicate and comprehend, they would at best be unable to share, at worst be obliged to fight. This book is concerned with communicating and comprehending. It takes the view that ideas matter and that a ...
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Galbraith and Market Capitalism Galbraith and Market Capitalism
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Crosland's Future: Opportunity and Outcome
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David A. Reisman
Anthony Crosland, a member of Harold Wilson's cabinet and the author of The Future of Socialism, was immensely influential in seeking to modernise the ideology of the Labour Party, to put opportunity and empowerment, the fairness of life chances and the sharing of social experiences at its centre in place of nationalisation. The party's belated ...
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Democracy and Exchange: Schumpeter, Galbraith, T.H. Marshall, Titmuss and Adam Smith
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David A Reisman
Democracy is the rule of the people. Exchange is supply and demand. Individualism, agreement, tolerance and choice are the underlying values that make possible the productive collaboration of the market and the state. This book assesses the theories of democracy and exchange of five interdisciplinary thinkers, who tried to unite political and ...
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Tawney, Galbraith, and Adam Smith: State and Welfare
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Telephone Medicine: A Guide for the Practicing Physician
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Anna B Reisman, David L Stevens
This is a practical guide that focuses on an evidence-based approach to the management of common clinical situations in telephone medicine. It is intended for primary care providers.
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Institutional Economy: Demand and Supply
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David A Reisman
The institutional economy is the economy of rules and laws, conventions and precedents. It is prices but also practices, change but also constancy, individual but also interdependence. David Reisman argues that conformity and repetition as well as new initiatives and mould-breaking departures constitute the essence of supply and demand. This ...
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Conservative Capitalism: The Social Economy
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David A Reisman
Smith, Burke, Marx, Durkheim, Polanyi and Hayek--all sought to situate market exchange and property-based acquisitiveness in the broader context of human interaction and social values. This book explores that framework of interdependence and ethics that embeds the capitalist market economy in an ongoing whole of which the calculative present-day ...
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Richard Titmuss: Welfare and Society
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David A Reisman
Richard Titmuss, Professor at the London School of Economics, adviser to governments, and prolific author, was instrumental in shaping the new disciplines of social policy and administration. He made a valuable contribution to social philosophy through his attempt to integrate welfare into its broad social context. In this revised edition of his ...
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Democratic Socialism in Britain: Classic Texts in Economic and Political Thought, 1825-1952
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David A Reisman
British liberals in the period from the Industrial Revolution to the founding of the Welfare State made an important contribution to the theory of gain-seeking behaviour and the free economic market. British socialists in the same period were forging an alternative tradition which concentrated on compassion, corporatism, community and ...
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Theories of the Mixed Economy
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David A Reisman
This collection includes ten classic texts of 20th-century British political economy. The texts deal with managed capitalism, the welfare state and the middle ground, and should promote readers' understanding of British politics and economic ideology in the years since the Great Depression called into question the automacity of the laissez-faire ...
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Galbraith and Market Capitalism
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Market and Health
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The Political Economy of Health Care
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David Reisman
Some goods and services are normally left to the market mechanism. Health care is often described as an exception to the rule. Society wants care to be allocated equitably; it wants the financial burden to be kept within bounds; it wants treatments to be both medically effective and economically efficient. These shared concerns lead to a demand ...
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Modern Societies & the Science of Religions:: Studies in Honour of Lammert Leertouwer
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David C Reisman, Dr. G a Wiegers (Editor)
This volume brings together studies by 17 specialists in the science of religions in which they relate the changes in their discipline to the changes which have occurred in a select number of modern(izing) societies worldwide. It attempts to study these developments in their relation to, and as conditioned and constrained by, cultural change, ...
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Adam Smith's sociological economics
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Presents an interdiciplinary study of the thoughts of Adam Smith, showing it particular how the link between economic basis and social superstructure was central to his work.
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Theories of Collective Action: Downs, Olson, and Hirsch
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David Reisman
Individuals make decisions but they do not do so in a social vacuum. The goods they buy are frequently status-symbols in a zero-sum game which some will win and some must lose. Their consumption of commodities is subject to the constraint that what one can do, all cannot. The pressure of coalitions and interest groups, the self- interest of ...
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Anthony Crosland: The Mixed Economy
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David A. Reisman
Anthony Crosland, a member of Harold Wilson's cabinet and the author of The Future of Socialism, was an influential British social democrat. His ambitious reappraisal of nationalised ownership and regulated enterprise continues to stimulate discussion in the debate about management versus market. Anthony Crosland: The Mixed Economy examines ...
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