TAX BENEFIT: FINDING A BALANCE BETWEEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INTERESTS

Australia's balance between public and private arrangements.

Private Opportunity, Public Benefit?

The newly elected Labour government has pledged to ‘reinvigorate the Private Finance Initiative’, as part of the new emphasis on ‘public/private partnerships’ in the delivery of core public services. This article assesses the merits of using private finance to deliver public services against three criteria: whether it will lead to additional investment in social infrastructure, whether it repre...

Can Private Interests Buy Public Science ? *

Can private interest groups influence the decisions of independent experts to achieve their desired outcomes? This study analyzes a common non-market strategy — lobbying powerful politicians — through which interest groups seek to influence the allocation of public funds in the context of peerreviewed funding for research on rare diseases by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). We find evid...

Perspective - The Interdependence of Private and Public Interests

The predominant focus in research on organizations is on private or public institutions without consistent consideration of their interdependencies. The emphasis in scholarship on private or public interests has strengthened as disciplinary and professional knowledge has deepened: Management scholars, for example, tend to consider the corporation as the unit of analysis, whereas scholars of pub...

Genetic Testing between Private and Public Interests: Some Legal and Ethical Reflections

In Europe, there is a wide variety of genetic tests that various private companies offer to patients or to consumers. More and more people have become curious about their genetic predisposition and susceptibility. Most public health-care systems, however, are not adequately prepared for responding to these new demands and to the results of these genetic tests as, quite often, there is no availa...