The market doesn’t care

Corcoran, Mary and Albertson, Kevin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6678-5590 (2023) The market doesn’t care. Public Money and Management. ISSN 0954-0962

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2023.2244851

Abstract

Governments marketize the delivery of care supposedly for reasons of economic efficiency or innovation. The authors theorize that marketization is, in fact, motivated by government incentives which increase transactional activity, creating the illusion of (economic) growth. This occurs at the cost of devaluing relational aspects of social care, with consequences for workers and users. The voluntary sector is especially construed as a domain where social productivity is supposedly reliant on strong relational values, and distanced from primarily transactional, profit-pursuant activity. Marketization of this sector presents a clear example of depreciating relational values relative to transactional economic activity.

Item Type:	Article
Peer-reviewed:	Yes
Date Deposited:	17 Jul 2023 12:59
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Additional Information:	This is an Open Access article published in Public Money and Management.
Divisions:	Faculties > Business and Law Research Centres > Decent Work and Productivity
Subject terms:	1501 Accounting, Auditing and Accountability, 1503 Business and Management, 1605 Policy and Administration, Political Science & Public Administration
URI:	https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/632304
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2023.2244851
ISSN	0954-0962
e-ISSN	1467-9302

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