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 ...

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 ...

Exclusión social y estado del bienestar

Exclusión social y estado de bienestar.- Tendencias en la desigualdad de la renta.- Las políticas redistributivas.- La pobreza: problemas conceptuales y de medición.- Factores explicativos de la pobreza.- principales tendencias de la pobreza.- Las políticas contra la pobreza: conceptos básicos.- Las políticas contra la pobreza ...

Conocimiento, periferia y desarrollo

los nuevos escenarios en la Patagonia Austral

Los diversos trabajos presentados en este libro coinciden en que la persistencia de la actual situacion economica obturara el surgimiento de nuevas estrategias de desarrollo que posibiliten al territorio patagonico apropiarse de los beneficios de la sociedad del conocimiento sobre la base de la inclusion ...

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 ...

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 ...

Welfare state change

towards a Third Way?

Contents/contributors Part 1: Policy Contexts and Concepts 1 Rebecca Surender: Modern Challenges to the Welfare State and the Antecedents of the Third Way 2 Stuart White: Welfare Philosophy and the Third Way 3 Giuliano Bonoli and Martin Powell: One Third Way or Several? Part ...

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 ...

El Estado del Bienestar en España

Este volumen analiza críticamente la situación del Estado del Bienestar en España, tanto globalmente como en sus distintos componentes tales como la Seguridad Social, el mercado laboral con énfasis en el análisis de la precariedad, la situación de la inmigración, la calidad y la financiación ...

Social Europe

living standars and welfare states

Social Europe analyses the diverse dynamics of the lives of people across Europe. It is the first quantitative analysis of its kind to make a systematic comparison of life chances across the fifteen countries of the EU. This wide perspective enables the researchers to illustrate ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Structural economics

The interface of national accounting and economic analysis is something of a neglected area within economics. This important new book explains how national accounts can be used for economic modelling via input- output analysis - the main tool in the field. Structural Economics provides an accounting ...

The global competitiveness report 2004-2005

The World Economic Forum continues its tradition of excellence with the 25th edition of the annual Global Competitiveness Report featuring the latest national statistics and results of the Executive Opinion Survey, which captures the perception of over 8,700 business leaders. The report provides the ...

Balance económico regional

(autonomías y provincias), años 1995 a 2003

Contenido: PRESENTACIÓN I. COMENTARIO PREVIO II. METODOLOGÍA III. ANÁLISIS DE LOS RESULTADOS NACIONALES IV. ANÁLISIS REGIONAL Y PROVINCIAL V. CONVERGENCIA REGIONAL Y PROVINCIAL CON LA UNIÓN EUROPEA (EUR-15) ÍNDICE DE ESTADÍSTICOS ÍNDICE DE MAPAS TABLAS ESTADÍSTICAS GENERALES. POBLACIÓN Y EMPLEO TABLAS DE LA 1 A ...

Alternativas a la globalización económica

un mundo mejor es posible

Alternativas a la globalización económica, resultado de tres años de trabajo del Foro Internacional sobre la Globalización (FIG), enumera diez principios para un nuevo modelo social que nos conduzca hacia sociedades realmente democráticas y sostenibles que beneficien a la mayoría. Después de años de protesta ...

Limits to globalization

welfare states and the world economy

This text argues for the need to understand developments in welfare and social provision alongside the processes of globalization. In the two decades following World War II, the massive expansion of the welfare state system arguably allowed Western governments to expose their societies to uncontrollable ...

Porto Alegre

la esperanza de otra democracia