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 Over
his 40-year career in public management,
Norm King has been developing and
articulating a different way of looking at
public policy based on the concepts of
demand management and using market-based
policies to achieve policy goals. The result
is what he describes as a somewhat contrary
approach to many of the politically correct
and ideological policies advocated on both
the left and the right.
Mr. King discussed his concepts at the April
17 Randall Lewis Seminar Series, beginning
with the premise that the primary role of
government is not just to provide services,
but as importantly to create conditions that
encourage everyone -- acting in their own
self interest -- to become more directly
responsible for the costs which we inflict
on others and the environment.
He explained how good planning and other
traditional tools of government will always
be overpowered by bad prices and incentives,
and how tax and pricing policies can produce
equitable and effective public policies for
transportation, health care, welfare,
energy, water, housing and other public
issues.
Mr.
King's notes on public policy concepts
(Word document, 200KB)
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