Competition and prospective payment systems have been widely used to attempt to control health care costs. Although much of the increase in medical costs over the past half-century has been concentrated among a few high-cost users of health care, prospective payment systems may provide...

Purpose: As the provision of public services in many advanced welfare states has increasingly come to be marked by competition, social enterprises have actively been encouraged by governments to become involved in the delivery of public services. While the evaluation of complex public health...

Purpose This intentionally polemical paper will aim to re-examine what is meant by social enterprise and try to assert its role within the current economic system. It is well over a decade since John Pearce’s Social Enterprise in Anytown was first published. Since then the term “social...