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Challenging Choices - Ideology, Consumerism and Policy (Book, New)
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Challenging Choices - Ideology, Consumerism and Policy (Book, New)
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Choice pervades our society, and for good reason. We live in a
society founded on political rights to choose and in an economy
based on market choices, but we have now reached an opposite
extreme in which choice is extended almost everywhere. Choice has
become an ideology: more is invariably seen as beneficial, and
often as a solution to policy issues. This lively and topical book
provides a critique of choice in contemporary society and policy,
arguing that we can have too much of a good thing. A severe lack of
choice frustrates and disadvantages us, and having choices empowers
us, but constant extension of choice overwhelms us. And there are
alternatives. In part one, the author shows how choice works at a
personal level, its demands, and how it can fail to work at the
personal and policy levels. By examining key policy issues such as
healthcare, education and pensions, he then explores the
alternatives to choice, such as provision. In part two the book
reviews the impact of choice on us through the life cycle,
identifying the demanding choices that are now required in respect
of jobs and careers, relationships and fertility, retirement and
death. From the trivial to the momentous, choices now dominate our
lives to an extent that has dramatically increased in a short time.
In a concise and readable style, the author considers whether this
enhances or burdens our lives, and questions the blithe assumption
that more choice is always for the better.
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