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Political Failure by Agreement
Gerhard Wegner
The purpose of this book is to reconsider economic liberalism from the viewpoint of political liberalism. The author argues that advocates of economic liberalism largely overlook empirical political preferences which, in many societies, ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Applied Welfare Economics
Edited by Richard E. Just, Darell L. Hueth, Andrew Schmitz
The practical value of intuitive insights provided by innovative scholars drives much of the current development in applied welfare economics. This authoritative volume – prepared by leading researchers in the field – presents the most i... -
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Population Aging, Intergenerational Transfers and the Macroeconomy
Edited by Robert L. Clark, Naohiro Ogawa, Andrew Mason
Population aging is a global phenomenon that influences not only the industrialized countries of Asia and the West, but also many middle- and low- income countries that have experienced rapid fertility decline and achieved long life expe...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Occupational Welfare
Bent Greve
Occupational welfare is becoming increasingly important in Europe. This book presents valuable new data on occupational welfare and its development, and questions not only the traditional clustering of welfare states, but also the analys...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![The Political Economy of Welfare Reform in the United States]()
The Political Economy of Welfare Reform in the United States
Mary Reintsma
The welfare system in the United States underwent profound changes as a result of the groundbreaking welfare legislation passed in 1996 entitled The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act (PRWORA). The Politica...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Regulating Aged Care
John Braithwaite, Toni Makkai, Valerie Braithwaite
This book is a major contribution to regulatory theory from three members of the world-class regulatory research group based in Australia. It marks a new development in responsive regulatory theory in which a strengths-based pyramid comp...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The WTO and Poverty and Inequality
Edited by L. A. Winters
This comprehensive two-volume collection presents key papers on the relationship between international trade and trade policy on the one hand, and poverty and inequality on the other. These relationships highlight the connections between... -
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Globalization, Economic Development and Inequality
Edited by Erik S. Reinert
The expert contributors gathered here approach underdevelopment and inequality from different evolutionary perspectives. It is argued that the Schumpeterian processes of ‘creative destruction’ may take the form of wealth creation in one ...eBook:Find out more$59.96
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Work, Leisure and the Environment
Tim Robinson
This significant book explains how work–life balance is being destroyed because individuals fail to link their work effort with its adverse environmental effects and the personal costs they impose. -
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International Perspectives on Household Wealth
Edited by Edward N. Wolff
The contributors to this comprehensive book compile and analyse the latest data available on household wealth using, as case studies, the United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and Finland during the 1990s and into the twenty-fir...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Distributional Effects of Indirect Taxes
John Creedy, Cath Sleeman
This book develops a number of analytical models and presents empirical analyses of the equity and efficiency effects of existing indirect taxes from New Zealand. Potential tax reforms including environmental taxes are also examined and ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Redesigning the Welfare State
Hans-Werner Sinn, Christian Holzner, Wolfgang Meister, Wolfgang Ochel, Martin Werding
Redesigning the Welfare State argues that the current high level of unemployment in Germany not only creates a major challenge for the German welfare state, but is to a good extent caused by the way the country's welfare system is design...
