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Kittens Are Evil II : Little Heresies in Public Policy, Paperback / softback Book

Kittens Are Evil II : Little Heresies in Public Policy Paperback / softback

Edited by Charlotte Pell, Rob Wilson, Toby Lowe

Part of the Little Heresies series

Paperback / softback

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The 'Little Heresies' seminars provide an important public platform to debate the future of public services.

This is the second published collection of talks given at those seminars.

Both books takes their title from the first seminar, Kittens are Evil: it is still widely believed that private sector management methods and policies work well in the public sector.

To suggest that they create perverse incentives and lasting damage to the social fabric is still a heresy.

In this second volume (a companion to Kittens Are Evil), nine heretics, all leading thinkers and practitioners in their professional fields, explain the disastrous effects of wrong thinking and ineffective practice in areas like: standardisation, professionalisation in public services, measurement in public services, so-called evidence-based policy-making, money creation, philanthropy, and the third/charitable sector.

Each heretic offers an alternative way of thinking about and developing policies.

Government would do well to listen to these experts in designing practices for the future.

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