Welfare measurement in imperfect markets

a growth theoretical approach

This book cleverly integrates the research on welfare measurement and social accounting in imperfect market economies. In their previously acclaimed volume, Welfare Measurement, Sustainability and Green National Accounting, the authors focused on the external effects associated with environmental damage and analysed their role in the ...

A handbook of comparative social policy

The current context of social policy is one in which many of the old certainties of the past have been eroded. The predominantly inward-looking, domestic preoccupation of social policy has made way for a more integrated, international and outward approach to analysis which looks beyond ...

New risk, new welfare

the transformation of the European welfare state

This book, based on brand new data from a major study and long-standing collaboration between a number of prominent European scholars, provides a fresh perspective on the future of the welfare state across the EU. Through detailed case-study analysis, it analyses the emergence of new ...

Unsocial Europe

social protection or flexploitation?

This book presents a critical analysis of trends in European welfare systems and labour market policies, how and why they are changing and how they affect the daily lives of those facing unemployment or precarious work. As a contribution to debates about `globalisation' and the ...

Work to welfare

how men become detached from the labour market

Respect

In a world of inequality

The economics of social policy

Globalization and national economic welfare

Rethinking the welfare state

the political economy of pension reform

Economía y bienestar social en Cuba a comienzos del siglo XXI

Economía y familia

la solidaridad intergeneracional

Motivation, agency and public policy

of knights and Knave, pawns and queens

Can we rely on the altruism of professionals or the public service ethos to deliver good quality health and education services? How should patients, parents and pupils behave - as grateful recipients or active consumers? The book provides new answers to these questions, and evaluates recent ...

Renegotiating the welfare state

flexible adjustment through corporatist concentration

Why have some countries have been more successful in welfare state reform than others? This book examines the experiences of various countries in reforming their welfare states through renegotiations between the state and peak associations of employers and employees. This corporatist concertation has been blamed ...

Distant proximities. Dynamics beyond globalization

Has globalization the phenomenon outgrown "globalization" the concept? In Distant Proximities, one of America's senior scholars presents a work of sweeping vision that addresses the dizzying anxieties of the post- Cold War, post-September 11 world. Culminating the influential reassessment of international relations he began ...

Community water, community management

from system to service in rural areas

This book is based on the experience gained over twenty years of working to strengthen the capacities of rural communities to manage their own water supply systems. The day-to-day experiences of 22 communities in six different countries # with differing geographical, socio-economic and cultural settings # are ...

The moral economy of welfare states

Britain and Germany compared

This text investigates why people are willing to support an institutional arrangement that realizes large-scale redistribution of wealth between social groups of society. Steffen Mau introduces the concept of "the moral economy" to show that acceptance of welfare exchanges rests on moral assumptions and ideas ...

An evolutionary approach to social welfare

In social life, the adoption of norms and values typically help in settling potential conflicts of interest to the mutual benefit of all. While not evident immediately, social norms and values play a crucial role in the theory of social choice INDICE Part One: Evolution ...

Fair division and collective welfare

The concept of fair division is as old as civil society itself. Aristotle's "equal treatment of equals" was the first step toward a formal definition of distributive fairness. The concept of collective welfare, more than two centuries old, is a pillar of modern economic ...

The economics of social policy

This unique book demonstrates how instruments of economics can be usefully employed to analyse social policy. The merits and limits of social policy programmes are discussed as answers to problems of market societies. Taking this enlightened approach the author addresses such key issues as access ...

Economía de Bienestar y dos Aproximaciones a los Derechos

Sen plantea una discusión entre teorías del derecho que convergen en su aplicación a la acción social, “para evitar la opresión económica”. Con ello, el Nobel de economía ofrece una propuesta interdisciplinaria que demuestra los alcances de una concesión en aras de lograr mejorar la ...