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Putting Words into People's Mouths? Economic Culture and its Implications for Local Government

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Maureen Mackintosh () (Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University)
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Examines analytically and through field work the forced transfer of economic and business concepts into the vocabulary of local government. Reflects on the use of discourse analysis in economic investigaton.

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Paper provided by The Open University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Economics in its series Open Discussion Papers in Economics with number 9.

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Length: 36 pages
Date of creation: Dec 1995
Date of revision: Jan 1997
Publication status: Published in as 'Economic culture and quasi-markets in local government: the case of contracting for social care' in Local Government Studies Vol.23/2 pp.80-102 1997 and as 'Trading work: discourses of exchange in the economic culture of local government' in Public Policy and Administration Vol.12 No.2 1997
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Keywords: Economic culture; public sector reform; discourse;

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