The Other Invisible Hand: Delivering Public Services Through Choice and Competition

by Julian Le Grand and Le Grand Julian

How can we ensure high-quality public services such as health care and education? Governments spend huge amounts of public money on public services such as health, education, and social care, and yet the services that are actually delivered are often low quality, inefficiently run, unresponsive to their users, and inequitable in their distribution. In this book, Julian Le Grand argues that the best solution is to offer choice to users and to encourage...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691129363
• ISBN13: 9780691129365
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.5"