Julian Le Grand
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Julian Le Grand is Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics (LSE) and has been a senior policy advisor to the Prime Minister (Tony Blair).
If there is a single defining thought about New Labour's approach to public services, it surrounds the benefit of choice, alongside investment. And if there has been a single leading intellectual exponent of this thesis, it is Julian Le Grand, the health policy adviser to the prime minister. Many - to his distress - confuse his advocacy of what he describes as quasi-markets with an advocacy of privatisation. Others on the more Brownite wing question his politics if not the policy, arguing that by placing so much emphasis on choice, Professor Le Grand and his "fellow travellers" undermine the ethos of public service.
He is the author, co-author or editor of seventeen books and over ninety articles on economics, philosophy and public policy. His most recent book, Motivation, Agency and Public Policy: of Knights and Knaves, Pawns and Queens (Oxford University Press, 2003), was described by the Economist as ‘accessible - and profound’ and by The Times as ‘one of the most important books on public policy in recent years’. He was one of Prospect magazine’s 100 top British public intellectuals, and one of the ESRC’s ten Heroes of Dissemination.
He is the author, co-author or editor of seventeen books and over ninety articles on economics, philosophy and public policy. His most recent book, Motivation, Agency and Public Policy: of Knights and Knaves, Pawns and Queens (Oxford University Press, 2003), was described by the Economist as ‘accessible - and profound’ and by The Times as ‘one of the most important books on public policy in recent years’. He was one of Prospect magazine’s 100 top British public intellectuals, and one of the ESRC’s ten Heroes of Dissemination.
He is one of the principal architects of the UK Government’s current ‘quasi-market’ reforms introducing choice and competition into health care and education. In addition, he originated and developed several innovative ideas in social policy, including one that became the ‘baby bond’ or Child Trust Fund, the Partnership Scheme for funding long term care endorsed by the 2005 Wanless Report Securing Good Care for Older People, the Educational Premium for the less well off and for looked after children, and the Social Care Practice in the 2006 Department for Education and Skills Green Paper, Care Matters.
He has written widely, including:
- Motivation, agency & public policy: of knights and knaves, pawns & queens, Oxford UP, 2003
- "Health, Values & Social Policy". In Ann Oakley & Jonathan Barker, Private Complaints & Public Health, Policy Press, 2004
