Private Markets and Public Intervention: A Primer for Policy Designers

By Harvey A. Averch

Averch describes and analyzes common strategies for solving problems in public policy. The strategies discussed include the use of markets, bureaus, regulation, planning and budgeting, benefit-cost, systems analysis, and evaluation. He examines the historical development of each strategy; describes how each strategy would ideally work; explains the necessary or sufficient conditions that permit each strategy to work; lists the potential failures of each strategy; and provides a judgment or appraisal of each strategy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822954370
• ISBN13: 9780822954378
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"