Public sector consumer problems: A reply to the responses

✍ Scribed by Young, Dennis R.

• Book ID: 104748079
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1978
• Weight: 1021 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0342-5843
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00382554

✦ Synopsis

In this paper, the author replies to Bish, McKean, Offe, Stevens, and Bull, concerning his original paper "Consumer Problems in the Public Sector," JCP, I, I977/3. The reply elaborates on the concepts of tax-price, political and organizational failures, and the relationships of these failure modes to public sector consumer problems. The present paper also develops a more explicit classification of public sector consumers, and it relates the discussion of public sector consumer problems to branches of the literature concerned with "fiscal illusion" and "consumption costs.