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PUBLIC PROVISION: THE CONSUMER DILEMMA
Author(s) -
National ERIC MIDWINTER
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
journal of consumer studies and home economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.775
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1470-6431
pISSN - 0309-3891
DOI - 10.1111/j.1470-6431.1979.tb00340.x
Subject(s) - dilemma , public welfare , welfare , social dilemma , public health , social welfare , business , economics , public economics , political science , law , medicine , nursing , philosophy , epistemology , microeconomics
In this paper the author considers the origins of consumer activity in the public ‘social’ sector in the nineteenth century and makes suggestions about consumer activity in such areas as health and welfare, education, housing and the law in the twentieth century.