TY  - BOOK
AU  - Trebilcock,M.J.
TI  - Dealing with losers: the political economy of policy transitions 
SN  - 9780199370672 (ebook) :
AV  - H97 .T737 2014
U1  - 330 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Policy sciences
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Political planning
KW  - Transaction costs
KW  - Social policy
KW  - Economic policy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Whenever governments change policies there will typically be losers. These losers will have made investments of one kind or another predicated on, or even deliberately by, the pre-reform set of policies. Very few policy changes make everybody better off, but rather re-allocate social benefits and costs in different ways. The issue of whether and when to mitigate the costs associated with policy changes is ubiquitous across the policy landscape. This book explores both normative and positive rationales for transition cost mitigation strategies
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199370658.001.0001
ER  -