Economics of Social Policy
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Social Policy in an Ageing Society
David Reisman
Around half the world’s population live in countries where the fertility rate is far below the replacement rate and where life expectancy is increasing dramatically. Using Singapore as a case study, Social Policy in an Ageing Society exp...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Frontiers in Pension Finance
Edited by Dirk Broeders, Sylvester Eijffinger, Aerdt Houben
How to deliver adequate pension benefits at reasonable costs is a huge challenge confronting our ageing societies. This book delivers a comprehensive overview of the latest insights into pension finance, pension system design, pension go...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Social Protection in Africa
Frank Ellis, Stephen Devereux, Phillip White
The purpose of this book is to make accessible to a broad audience the ideas, principles and practicalities of establishing effective social protection in Africa. It focuses on the major shift in strategy for tackling hunger and vulnerab...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Health Care and Public Policy
David Reisman
Health Care and Public Policy is a comprehensive and intelligible cross-disciplinary account of the objectives of health care policy (medical, social, economic) and of the policy-tools that government can employ (cost–benefit analysis, e...eBook:Find out more$62.36
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Regulatory Capitalism
John Braithwaite
Contemporary societies have more vibrant markets than past ones. Yet they are more heavily populated by private and public regulators. This book explores the features of such a regulatory capitalism, its tendencies to be cyclically crisi...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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The Working Poor in Europe
Edited by Hans-Jürgen Andreß, Henning Lohmann
For a long time in-work poverty was not associated with European welfare states. Recently, the topic has gained relevance as welfare state retrenchment and international competition in globalized economies has put increasing pressures on...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Economics of Social Protection
Lars Söderström
This book focuses on arrangements for redistributing consumption opportunities over the life cycle and for providing compensation for income losses or large expenditures due to reasons such as illness and unemployment. After extensive co...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Economics of Health Behaviours
Edited by John Cawley, Donald S. Kenkel
This three-volume set brings together the most important and interesting papers on the economics of health behaviours such as smoking, drinking, drug use, and risky sex. Volume I explores the theoretical foundations; it also includes emp... -
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Children, Changing Families and Welfare States
Edited by Jane Lewis
The book explores the implications of changes to the welfare state for children in a range of countries. Children, Changing Families and Welfare States: examines the implications of social policies for children; sets the discussion in ...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Government and Public Health in America
Ronald Hamowy
How involved should the government be in American healthcare? Ronald Hamowy argues that to answer this pressing question, we must understand the genesis of the five main federal agencies charged with responsibility for our health: the Pu...eBook:Find out more$80.76
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The Disappearing State?
Edited by Francis G. Castles
Edited by Francis G. Castles, a leading authority in the field, and bringing together an outstanding group of British, German and American scholars, it examines trends in non-social or ‘core’ spending on public administration, defence, p...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Welfare States: Construction, Deconstruction, Reconstruction
Edited by Stephan Leibfried, Steffen Mau
In this three-volume collection Leibfried and Mau have gathered together the most vital articles about the welfare state and its ‘reformation’ written since the mid-1970s. Their choices and organizing principles bring coherence and addit...