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Please feel free to comment and especially to add your own analyses or experiences. Just click on a blog and go to the comment section at the bottom. Or you can email me at colin.talbot@mbs.ac.ukTop Posts
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- Government defeats over public money in Parliament (crowd sourcing examples)
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- 'Universal Credit' Crunch Arrives (as I predicted it would)
- Limit public service competition to non-profits
- Has the Office for Budget Responsibility achieved genuine independence from government?
- NYT Excerpt: Radical Accounting And The Value Of Ideas
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Limit public service competition to non-profits
Post written by Colin Talbot for The Conversation. The idea that competition is better than monopoly provision in public services is now established wisdom among the British political elite. Since the advent of something commonly called “New Public Management” in … Continue reading
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