Anglický jazyk

Kittens Are Evil II

Vydavateľstvo: Triarchy Press Ltd
Rok vydania: 2020
Formát: Paperback
Rozmer: 229 x 152 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9781911193777

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O knihe

The 'Little Heresies' seminars - this is the second published

collection of the talks given at them - provide an important

public platform to debate the future of public services.

Now more than ever it seems vital to challenge the 'received

wisdom', 'zombie thinking' and old, tired and outdated habits

and practices that continue to infest important aspects of our

public services. For, as the authors demonstrate, what appear to

be well-intentioned policies not only create perverse incentives

but frequently cause lasting damage to the social fabric.

Private sector management methods, underpinned by

neoliberal thinking, were introduced into UK public services by

Margaret Thatcher. Many other countries have adopted the same

approach. And successive governments continue to be duped

into believing, against plenty of evidence to the contrary, that

New Public Management, as it is now called, works. It doesn't.

In this second publication from the Little Heresies series,

nine heretics, all leading thinkers and practitioners in their

professional fields, explain the disastrous effects of wrong

thinking and ineffective practice in areas like standardisation,

professionalisation and measurement in public services, socalled

evidence-based policy-making, money creation and,

looking more widely, in the troubled waters of philanthropy and

the third/charitable sector.