Individual Irrationality and Public Policy
In Search of Merit/Demerit Policies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6297369 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cliff Walsh (Australian National University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 103-134 |
| Publication date | 1987-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Public Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0143-814X • E-ISSN: 1469-7815 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0143814x00005201 |
| OpenAlex | W2079625957 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 10 |
In the context of a re-examination of the conceptual and political foundations of merit/demerit goods, this paper attempts to identify how far they might take us in understanding, explaining, and providing normative justification for, public sector intervention. If merit/demerit influences are to be discovered in actual policies they must be capable of being isolated, at least at the margin, from other policy influences, such as conventional sources of market failure, pure paternalism, and pressure group activities
Context (archaeology · Economic growth · Economics · Intervention (counseling · Irrationality · Margin (machine learning · Market economy · Market failure · Microeconomics · Normative · Paternalism · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Public economics · Public policy · Rationality · Computer Science · Employment and Welfare Studies · Global Health Care Issues · Law · Medicine · Public health and occupational medicine
The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity
An economic theory of democracy
Public Goods and Public Welfare
Metropolitan Finance Reconsidered
A normative theory of transfers
Public Goods, Perfect Competition, and Underproduction
Market Provision of Price-excludable Public Goods
Social Justice and Public Policy
The Economics of Welfare
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2016 (28) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |