Public or Private Goods?

Contents:

Foreword
1. Introduction
Brigitte Unger, Loek Groot and Daan van der Linde

2. Value Based Demarcation Between the Public and the Private Domain
Klaas van Egmond

Part I Traditional Core Tasks of the State: Security
3. The Fight against Money Laundering: A Public Task?
Joras Ferwerda

4. Natural Disasters and (Future) Government Debt
Ian Koetsier

Part II New Core Tasks: Social Security
5. The Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Pension System Designs
Ian Koetsier

6. Pension Provision: (Still) a Public Task?
Florian Blank

7. Protection Against Unemployment - A Res Publica?
Brigitte Unger

8. More Health Care or More Beer? A Curious Paradox of Making Some Economic Tasks a Res Publica
Frans van Waarden

9. ECEC: Childcare Markets in the Netherlands and England
Trudie Knijn and Jane Lewis

Part III Public Goods
10. Housing Policy and Spatial Inequality: Recent Insights from Vienna and Amsterdam
Gerlinde Gutheil-Knopp-Kirchwald and Justin Kadi

11. Funding of Protected Areas: A Purely Public Task?
Grazia Withalm

12. The Role of Governments in Conserving and Funding Cultural Institutions
Michael Getzner

13. Income Distribution as a Public Task: The Redistributive Preferences of (Mis)informed Voters
Daan van der Linde

14. Conclusions
Brigitte Unger, Michael Getzner and Daan van der Linde

Index

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• Finanças públicas
• Economia social
• Privatização

Res Publica; Public Sector; Social Security; Public Goods; Social Insurances; Privatization