Meeting needs in an affluent society : a multi-disciplinary perspective
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Meeting needs in an affluent society : a multi-disciplinary perspective
Avebury, c1992
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Description
This work contains a collection of papers presented at the third annual conference of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRISS) at the university of York. The conference brought together researchers from social science research units and departments at the university to consider ways in which needs are identified and resources used to meet them in an apparently affluent society. A wide perspective was brought to bear on these issues reflecting the range of disciplines. Although the topics are diverse, the themes are consistent and revolve around the recognition and identification of need, the possibility in a rich society of overlap between "need" and "greed", emergence of new perspectives on need as technological developments extend opportunities, the financial effects of recent changes in society which create different balances of resources, and the philosophy and values underlying the tradeoffs and balances with which policy makers apportion those resources within their control.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Meeting need or feeding greed?: what is need?, C.B. Megone
- need, greed and Mark Twain's cat, A.J. Culyer
- let some get rich first? a perspective from the Third World, A. Leftwich
- priorities - not needs!, A. Williams. Part 2 New resources: meeting needs - defence and welfare, N. Hooper, et al
- home ownership, wealth and welfare - new connections, S.G. Lowe
- young people in the 1980s - new opportunities or new constraints?, S. Hutton
- prosperity, alcohol and crime - a need for new policies?, T.R.A. Ensor and C.A. Godfrey. Part 3 Using new technology: medical technology assessment - necessary discipline or barrier to progress?, J. Hutton
- community alarms services - who needs them?, P. Thornton
- meeting the telecommunications needs of people who are deaf, L. Jones, et al
- communication aid centres - do they fulfil a need?, B. Leese, et al. Part 4 Assessing needs: needs and resources in local government finance, P. Smith
- linking hospital specialties - a measure of clinical need, S.A. Ryder, et al
- the social fund - managing budgets, meeting needs?, M. Huby.
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