Individual and Social Responsibility -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I. Introduction and Overview -- Introduction -- 1. Overview -- II. Human Services: Organization, Finance, and Production -- 2. Child Care: Private Cost or Public Responsibility? -- 3. Rationalizing School Spending: Efficiency, Externalities, and Equity, and Their Connection to Rising Costs -- 4. Health Care Reform: The Clash of Goals, Facts, and Ideology -- 5. To Comfort Always: The Prospects of Expanded Social Responsibility for Long-Term Care -- III. Human Services: Theoretical and Institutional Perspectives -- 6. Consumption Externalities and the Financing of Social Services -- 7. Preferences, Promises, and the Politics of Entitlement -- 8. Information, Responsibility, and Human Services -- 9. The Changing Roles of Public, Private, and Nonprofit Enterprise in Education, Health Care, and Other Human Services -- 10. Government Intervention in the Markets for Education and Health Care: How and Why? -- 11. The Politics of American Social Policy, Past and Future -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index.