Public Policy and the Public Interest

ISBN-13: 9780415664660 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 288 str.

Lok-Sang Ho

Opis

As a book on public policy, this book is unique in addressing explicitly the role of human nature. Only with a good understanding of human nature can policy makers address their foremost needs and anticipate how people may respond to specific designs in policy.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Part 1. Theory of Public Policy Design  2. What Makes Good Public Policy  3. Human Nature and Public Policy  4. Institutional Policy Choice as Ex Ante Choice  Part 2. Microeconomic Risk Management  5. Health Care Pricing and Financing  6. The Rule of Law, Tort Law Reform and Legal Aid  7. Bank Deposit Insurance  8. Demographics and Public Pensions  Part 3. Resource Allocation and Redistribution  9. Government or Markets  10. Education and Cultural Policy  11. Taxes, Social Safety Net and Redistribution  Part 4. Public Policy and "Ecoclogy" of Economy 12. Economic Ecology  13. The Gobal Financial Tsunami of 2008  14. The Case of Hong Kong  15. Public Policy in the New Millennium

O autorze

Lok Sang Ho, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Public Policy Studies, Lingnan University, has published over ninety academic papers in journals and book chapters. Prof. Ho has been active in community and professional service. He served as President of the HK Economic Association for eight years through 2007 and had been an Advisor for the Hong Kong Institute of Monetary Research for ten years from 1999. He had also served as a member of HK Committee of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council and the Central Policy Unit of the Hong Kong SAR Government. Presently he is a member of the Standing Commission on Civil Service Salaries and Conditions of Service, the Policy Research and Advocacy Committee of the HK Council of Social Services,  and the Task Force on Study Project on Volunteering in Hong Kong for the Agency for Voluntary Services, etc. After stepping down as President of the HK Economic Association, he continues to serve the Association as Hon. Treasurer.