Public Economics and the Quality of LifeThis book argues that, if redistribution was the dominant political theme of the 1960s, that of the 1970s would have been most assuredly quality. Furthermore, this seeks to poorly articulated normative concerns of physical and environmental planners to the intellectual tools, old and new, with which economists were addressing policy issues. This will be of particular interest among practitioners and theoreticians identified with the policy sciences. |
Contents
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PART II | |
Justifiable Government Intervention in Preserving the Quality of Life | |
The Quality of Life and the Limits of CostBenefit Analysis | |
Theory | |
Neighborhood Externalities Economic Clubs and the Environment | |
The Treatment of Externalities in National Income Statistics | |
Conceptions of the Quality of Life in Theory and Practice | |
Toward a New Civic Calculus | |
Appendix | |
Reflections on the Quality of Working Life | |
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