Políticas públicas y distribución de la Renta

Ed. Jesús Ruiz-Huerta Carbonell. Esta obra examina las principales políticas de bienestar en España: bienes preferentes (educación, sanidad y vivienda), transferencias monetarias (pensiones y prestaciones contra la pobreza) y sistema impositivo. A través de los dieciséis capítulos que componen este libro se explora la influencia ...

V Informe FUHEM de Políticas Sociales

exclusión social y el estado de bienestar en España

El V Informe FUHEM de Políticas Sociales, titulado La Exclusión Social y el Estado de Bienestar en España busca establecer el estado de la cuestión de la exclusión social en España, a partir de los planteamientos del Estado de Bienestar. Para ello, ha establecido tres ...

The new indicators of well-being and development

The growth of GDP remains the principal focus of attention when it comes to judging the progress of the 'wealth of nations', however other attempts have been made, most of them since the 1990's, to enlarge such a narrow vision. New indicators of development ...

The Oxford handbook of pensions and retirement income

"The Oxford Handbook of Pensions and Retirement Income" is the only comprehensive review available of the latest research, policy-related tools, analytical methods and techniques, and major theoretical frameworks and principles of pension and retirement income. Featuring over forty contributions from leading academic and professional experts ...

Reforming early retirement in the USA, Europe, and Japan

Since the 1970s, early exit from work has become a major challenge in modern welfare states. Governments, employers, and unions alike once thought of early retirement as a peaceful solution to the economic problems of mass unemployment and industrial restructuring. Today, governments and international organizations ...

Taxation, wage bargaining, and unemployment

Why were European economies able to pursue the simultaneous commitment to full employment and welfare state expansion during the first decades of the postwar period and why did this virtuous relationship break down during recent decades? This book provides an answer to this question, by ...

La gestión de lo social

Tiempos inciertos

democracia, libertad y Derecho Humanos en el siglo XXI

A sus 75 años, Soros, un hombre hecho a sí mismo, que escapó de la barbarie nazi y de la instransigencia comunista, reflexiona sobre las líneas maestras de su pensamiento político, claramente influenciado por su maestro Karl Popper, y sobre las vías para conseguir un ...

Population issues in social choice theory, welfare economics, and ethic

This book presents an exploration of the idea of the common or social good, extended so that alternatives with different populations can be ranked. The approach is, in the main, welfarist, basing rankings on the well-being, broadly conceived, of those who are alive (or ever ...

Rethinking the Welfare State

the prospects for government by voucher

The territorial politics of welfare

Since the mid-1970s, European states have been reassessing the welfare state and reconfiguring their relationships with each other. The inter- linkages between these phenomena, however, have never been comprehensively examined. This innovative volume situates the expansion and ongoing development of the welfare state within the ...

The decline of the welfare state

demography and globalization

Federalism and the welfare state

new world and european experiences

The european social model

modernisation or evolution?

This timely book explores the development of the European Social Model and questions whether the relatively high level of social protection provided, both in terms of social welfare provision and in the creation of workers# rights and employment regulation, is sustainable. Contents: Preface 1. The ...

Parecon

vida después del capitalismo

«¿Qué es lo que quieres?» es una pregunta que se hace constantemente a los activistas antiglobalización que protestan contra la pobreza, la alienación y la degradación de nuestro mundo. En esta nueva y elogiada obra, Michael Albert propone una respuesta: economía participativa (participatory economics en ...

European welfare states

comparative perspectives

"European Welfare States" is a timely textbook that offers a comprehensive but accessible overview of issues concerning European welfare states. It brings together a discussion of the theories and techniques of comparative policy analysis and a description of current developments in selected welfare state regimes ...

Generational income mobility in North America and Europe

Labour markets in North America and Europe have changed tremendously in the face of increased globalization and technical progress, raising important challenges for policy makers concerned with equality of opportunity. This book examines the influence of both changes in income inequality and of social policies ...

Welfare economics

towards a more complete analysis

Yew Kwang Ng looks to make welfare economics more complete by discussing the recent inframarginal analysis of division of labour and by pushing welfare economics from the level of preference to that of happiness, making a reformulation of the foundation of public policy necessary. A ...

Economics of the welfare state

The new fourth edition of this successful textbook covers the different parts of the welfare system and includes detailed discussion of cash benefits, the health service, and education. The text argues that the welfare state exists not just to help the underprivileged, but also for ...

Happiness quantified

a satisfaction calculus approach

How do we measure happiness? This important and long-awaited book presents a new and unified approach to the analysis of subjective satisfaction and income evaluation. Drawing on empirical analyses of German, British, Dutch, and Russian data, it develops new methodology to establish a model of ...