Applied Welfare Economics: Cost-Benefit Analysis for Project and Policy Evaluation presents a consistent framework for applied welfare economics and is grounded in a comprehensive theory of cost-benefit analysis, specifically focused on offering a p...Loe edasi...
Seki presents an ethnography of uncertainty and precarity experienced by people in urban, rural, and transnational, communities in the Philippines as a case study of social protection without the possibility of a robust welfare state. He deals with...Loe edasi...
Although it was an important specialization in economics in the mid-twentieth century, welfare economics has received less attention in this century. This book explores the history of welfare economics, drawing on philosophy and economics, with a vi...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1979, The Idea of Welfare challenges conventional definitions of welfare, largely concerned with formal social policies sponsored by government and uses historical material to illustrate the dominant forms of a mutual aid whi...Loe edasi...
This book questions the dominance of neoliberalism and political economy as the main explanation for the penalization of others, migrants and foreign nationalsand makes an important contribution to our understanding of punishment and welfare states....Loe edasi...
This edited volume provides a synthesis on the question of business attitudes towards and its influence over the development of the modern welfare state. It gathers leading scholars in the field to offer both in-depth historical country case studies...Loe edasi...
First published in 1998, this study offers a survey of the conceptual background, the political dimension, and the macroeconomic context and constraints of the social security system in Israel, which in four decades (since the mid-1950s) grew virtua...Loe edasi...
Using a multi-methods approach, this book addresses the puzzle of why Germany was able to implement far-reaching reforms in this policy area after a long impasse and Italy was not. As such, it delivers a broad, systematic account of these reforms an...Loe edasi...
Social entrepreneurship and social enterprises share the potential to make a difference for people and societies. The Nordic countries represent an interesting case. In this book the editors demonstrate how the leading narratives and discourses that...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1973, Social Security and Society examines of the dominant forces that form the British social security system and argues that social security provision is not the result of concern felt by the dominant groups in society....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1994 The Politics of the Welfare State looks at how the privatization and marketization of education, health and welfare services in the past decade have produced a concept of welfare that is markedly different from that envi...Loe edasi...
This is a paradigm-shifting work that guides the reader through the evolution of Americas War on Poverty and urges policy-makers to eliminate training and education programmes that waste time and money and to adopt a work-first model, while providi...Loe edasi...
The Nordic Welfare State in Three Eras: From Emancipation to Discipline analyses the historical and contemporary evolution of Nordic welfare states in Denmark, Sweden and Finland during three periods: the developmental period until the end of WWII,...Loe edasi...
This book discusses the idea of red-green or eco-socialist society and how to get there. In examining todays crises of welfare capitalism as well as the challenges and conflicts of an eco-socialist society, the book analyses a social order that...Loe edasi...
