Choice and the New Paradigm in Policy

Peter Taylor-Gooby
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Peter Taylor-Gooby: University of Kent

Chapter 11 in Choice and Public Policy, 1998, pp 201-222 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Questions of economic choice have become central to public policy debates. However, we do not have a satisfactory theoretical account of choice. The approach that is currently most frequently used, which characterises choices as driven primarily by instrumental rationality, is open to question from a number of directions. The research discussed in this book does not provide the foundations of a general theory of economic choice. Its contribution lies in the critique it offers of the dominant theory which underlies current developments in public policy-making and in the insights it offers into the interplay between instrumental rationality and cultural and experiential factors in economic behaviour in a range of areas of current interest.

Keywords: Service User; Welfare State; Social Care; Social Housing; Instrumental Rationality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26302-8_11

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