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 ...

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 decline of the welfare state

demography and globalization

Federalism and the welfare state

new world and european experiences

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 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 ...

Pobreza y exclusión social en el Principado de Asturias

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 ...

La renta básica de ciudadanía

una propuesta clave para la renovación del estado del bienestar

Rethinking pension reform

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 ...

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 ...

Globalization and the welfare state

With contributions from leading thinkers such as J. Bhagwati and Robert Solow, this edited collection examines some hotly debated issues in today's world. The significance of globalization and its effects on welfare states is discussed and analyzed. A special chapter is devoted to terrorism ...

Política social y economía social

debates fundamentales

Making a european welfare state?

convergences and conflicts over european social policy

This volume provides an up-to-date account of developments in Europe across a range of policy fields, from labour markets to disability and poverty to health care. An up-to-date account of a rapidly changing field. Covers developments across a range of policy fields, from labour markets ...

Economia civile

efficienza, equità, felicità pubblica

Molti paradossi del mondo globale - disuguaglianze territoriali e individuali, crescita senza occupazione, aumento del reddito pro capite ma non della qualità della vita - hanno più a che fare con situazioni di scarsità sociale che materiale. Eppure le due visioni dominanti del rapporto tra sfera economica ...