Public values and public interest: counterbalancing economic individualism

Economic individualism and market-based values dominate today's policymaking and public management circlesùoften at the expense of the common good. In his new book, Barry Bozeman demonstrates the continuing need for public interest theory in government. Public Values and Public Interest offers a direct theoretical challenge to the utility of economic individualism, the prevailing political theory in the western world. The book's arguments are steeped in a practical and practicable theory that advances public interest as a viable and important measure in any analysis of policy or public adminis

The privatization of public value -- Economic individualism and the "publicness" of policies : cases and controversies -- Economic individualism in public policy -- Economic individualism in public management -- Public interest theory and its problems -- Toward a pragmatic public interest theory -- Values, value theory, and collective action -- Public values -- Public value mapping : the case of genetically modified foods and the "terminator gene" -- Managing publicness