Los retos del Estado del Bienestar ante las nuevas desigualdades

La publicación tiene como objetivo básico el análisis multidisciplinar de la desigualdad social como un problema social histórico y contemporáneo. Este volumen recoge las ponencias del curso de verano, celebrado los días 20 y 21 de junio 2017 en Jaca, organizado por la Universidad de ...

The living wage

The term "living wage" is often confused with "minimum wage" and in its implementation it has lacked a consistent meaning despite being widely used as a campaigning slogan. This short introduction explains exactly what it is and assesses whether it is an effective measure for ...

Austerity vs stimulus

the political future of economic recovery

This timely book debates the economic and political logic of the austerity policies that have been implemented in the UK and in the Eurozone since 2010 and asks whether there is any alternative for these countries in the years ahead. The work reconsiders the austerity ...

Liberalism and the Welfare State

economists and arguments for the Welfare State

The welfare state has, over the past forty years, come under increasing attack from liberals who consider comprehensive welfare provision inimical to liberalism. Yet, many of the architects of the post-World War II welfare states were liberals, many of whom were economists as much as ...

After austerity

welfare state transformation in Europe after the Great Recession

European welfare states are undergoing profound change, driven by globalization, technical changes, and population ageing. More immediately, the aftermath of the Great Recession and unprecedented levels of immigration have imposed additional pressures. This book examines welfare state transformations across a representative range of European countries ...

Basic income

a radical proposal for a free society and a sane economy

Providing a basic income to everyone, rich or poor, active or inactive, was advocated by Paine, Mill, and Galbraith but the idea was never taken seriously. Today, with the welfare state creaking, it is one of the world's most widely debated proposals. Philippe Van ...

El despilfarro de las naciones

El autor parte del título del famoso libro de Adam Smith 'La riqueza de las naciones' para convertirlo, casi 250 años después, en 'El despilfarro de las naciones', un ensayo en el que revisa numerosas aportaciones intelectuales (desde Malthus, Stuart Mill o Darwin, hasta muchas ...

Health care economics

The analytical approach of standard health economics has so far failed to sufficiently account for the nature of care. This has important ramifications for the analysis and valuation of care, and therefore for the pattern of health and medical care provision. This book sets out ...

Políticas públicas para combatir la pobreza en España

INDICE: Capítulo I. Marco general de las políticas de lucha contra la pobreza 1. La pobreza como objetivo de las políticas europeas 2. Estrategias de ámbito estatal y autonómico: los planes de inclusión social 3. Pobreza y protección social en España 4. El papel de ...

Understanding the cost of welfare

In the wake of the global financial crash, there is possibly no more pressing question for social policy than what forms of welfare are affordable and how. Clear and accessible, Howard Glennerster's Understanding the Cost of Welfare is unique in offering an authoritative, levelheaded ...

The age of responsibility

luck, choice, and the Welfare State

Yascha Mounk shows why a focus on personal responsibility is wrong and counterproductive: it distracts us from the larger economic forces determining aggregate outcomes, ignores what we owe fellow citizens regardless of their choices, and blinds us to key values such as the desire to ...

The wealth paradox

economic prosperity and the hardening of attitudes

The West is currently in the grip of a perfect storm: a lingering economic recession, a global refugee crisis, declining faith in multiculturalism, and the rise of populist anti-immigration parties. These developments seem to confirm the widely held view that hardship and poverty lead to ...

The violence of austerity

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis in 2008, Britain's government put into effect a hotly contested series of major cuts in public expenditure with the stated aim of restoring economic security. Since then, this reign of austerity continues to devastate contemporary Britain ...

The end of development

a global history of poverty and prosperity

Why did some countries grow rich while others remained poor? Human history unfolded differently across the globe. The world is separated in to places of poverty and prosperity. Tracing the long arc of human history from hunter gatherer societies to the early twenty first century ...

Manifiesto de la transición hacia el decrecimiento feliz

Para una mejor comprensión, este manifiesto viene acompañado de un preámbulo conceptual, en el que Julio García Camarero define y explica los conceptos fundamentales del crecimiento, del capitalismo como “religión de la desmesura” y las acciones para lograr un decrecimiento feliz. Así, realiza una contundente ...

Desigualdad

lo que todo el mundo debería saber sobre la distribución de los ingresos y de la riqueza

Durante los u?ltimos treinta an?os, el tema de la desigualdad econo?mica ha emergido de las aguas estancadas de la economi?a para reclamar un lugar central en el discurso poli?tico. Un cambio impulsado por el hecho preocupante de que esta ha ...

Hapiness for all?

unequal hopes and lives in pursuit of the american dream

The Declaration of Independence states that all people are endowed with certain unalienable rights, and that among these is the pursuit of happiness. But is happiness available equally to everyone in America today? How about elsewhere in the world? Carol Graham draws on cutting-edge research ...

The vanishing Middle Class

prejudice and power in a dual economy

The United States is becoming a nation of rich and poor, with few families in the middle. In this book, MIT economist Peter Temin offers an illuminating way to look at the vanishing middle class. Temin argues that American history and politics, particularly slavery and ...

The financial diaries

how american families cope in a world of uncertainty

Deep within the American Dream lies the belief that hard work and steady saving will ensure a comfortable retirement and a better life for one's children. But in a nation experiencing unprecedented prosperity, even for many families who seem to be doing everything right ...

The crisis of the middle-class constitution

why income inequality threatens our republic

In this original, provocative contribution to the debate over economic inequality, Ganesh Sitaraman argues that a strong and sizable middle class is a prerequisite for America’s constitutional system. For most of Western history, Sitaraman argues, constitutional thinkers assumed economic inequality was inevitable and inescapable ...