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Taking the iron fist a little further

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2007

IAN GREENER
IAN GREENER*
Affiliation:
Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK
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*Correspondence to: Dr Ian Greener, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK. Email: [email protected]
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In ‘Visible hand or invisible fist’ Professor Paton asks two specific questions; first, whether the new internal market is different to the one we experienced in the 1990s; and, second, given that the new market is not steered by anything approximating the invisible hand, is it an economic market at all, or some kind of political market instead?

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Health Economics, Policy and Law , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , July 2007 , pp. 327 - 331
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