Premium
Contracting‐Out: A Step Towards Competition
Author(s) -
Hartley Keith
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1986.tb01774.x
Subject(s) - collusion , competition (biology) , state (computer science) , government (linguistics) , business , industrial organization , economics , public administration , market economy , political science , computer science , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm , biology
The Government has advocated contracting‐out to improve services currently supplied by the state. Dr. Keith Hartly, Director of the Institute of Research at the University of York, argues that for the benefits of contracting‐out to be fully realised it most avoid collusion between state and contractor and should be extended to all forms of state supply and their workforces. Contracting‐out is nevertheless, merely a halfway‐house on the path towards genuine competition.