The Voluntary City : Choice, Community, and Civil Society (Economics, Cognition, and Society)
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Book Description
The rise and decline of American civic life has provoked wide-ranging responses from all quarters of society. Unfortunately, many proposals for improving our communities rely on renewed governmental efforts without a similar recognition that the inflexibility and poor accountability of governments have often worsened society's ills. The Voluntary City investigates the history of large-scale, private provision of social services, the for-profit provision of urban infrastructure and community governance, and the growing privatization of residential life in the United States to argue that most decentralized, competitive markets can contribute greatly to community renewal.
The Voluntary City : Choice, Community, and Civil Society (Economics, Cognition, and Society),David T. Beito,Peter Gordon,Alexander Tabarrok,University of Michigan Press,0472088378,Development - Business Development,Economics - General,Government - State & Provincial,Great Britain,History,Municipal government,Nonprofit Organizations & Charities,Political Science,Politics/International Relations,Sociology,Sociology - Urban,United States,Voluntarism,Local government,Management & management techniques,Social Science / Sociology / General,United Kingdom, Great Britain
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