ECONOMIC CULTURE AND QUASI-MARKETS IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT: THE CASE OF CONTRACTING FOR SOCIAL CARE

MACKINTOSH, MAUREEN

LOCAL GOVERNMENT STUDIES, n.º 2/1997, pág. 80

1. Analysing quasi-markets. 2. Economic culture. 3. 'Shopping' for domiciliary care: images and narratives. 4. Price norms and price competition in care contracting. 5. Sources of unease: The 'Assessment' tale/tail. 6. Sources of unease: Provider control of quality. 7. Ethics and the market. 8. Social Care and Quasi-Markets: a dominant thought world and excluded economic discourses.