Paying for Health, Education, and Housing

How Does the Centre Pull the Purse Strings?

Tony Travers author John Hills author Howard Glennerster author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Paying for Health, Education, and Housing cover

England is unusual in relying so heavily on central government to finance its social services. Citizens expect to be able to access services of similar standards wherever they live. This raises difficult theoretical and practical issues. How are the needs of different areas to be measured? How are the different costs of providing services in very different parts of the country to be assessed? This book reviews the economic theory that underpins thinking about the problem. It then traces the way governments have distributed resources from the end of the last century until today. It critically analyses current methods for three services - the National Health Service, schools, and housing.

This book is well written and is accessible to social policy undergraduates ... will be a useful addition to my undergraduate welfare finance reading list. It goes into more depth than Howard Glennerster's Paying for Welfare and covers a range of different issues. * Social Policy *

ISBN: 9780199240784

Dimensions: 242mm x 164mm x 19mm

Weight: 517g

252 pages