Welfare Economics
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![The Young, the Old and the State]()
The Young, the Old and the State
Edited by Anneli Anttonen, John Baldock, Jorma Sipilä
This is a comparative account of social care services for children and older people in five key industrial nations (Finland, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States). The authors break new ground by moving beyond institu...eBook:Find out more$44.76
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![The Welfare Economics of Public Policy]()
The Welfare Economics of Public Policy
Richard E, Just, Darrell L. Hueth, Andrew Schmitz
This outstanding text, a follow-up to the authors’ award-winning 1982 text, provides a thorough treatment of economic welfare theory and develops a complete theoretical and empirical framework for applied project and policy evaluation. T...eBook:Find out more$73.56
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The Economics of Nonprofit Enterprises
Edited by Richard Steinberg
The literature on nonprofit organizations can be said to have developed in three waves. The first wave asserted some plausible objectives for a nonprofit organization possessing monopoly power and examined the subsequent implications for... -
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Work, Family and Childcare
Joris Ghysels
Work, Family and Childcare studies the joint decisions made by parents regarding the time they allocate to paid employment and childcare. Extensive cross-national data is analysed from three countries that represent the diversity of Euro...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Economics of Social Security in Japan
Edited by Toshiaki Tachibanaki
This book provides a comprehensive appraisal of social security in Japan, where traditionally the burden of welfare provision has been the main responsibility of the family and employers, rather than the state. However, an ageing populat...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Poverty and Subsidiarity in Europe]()
Poverty and Subsidiarity in Europe
Didier Fourage
This book focuses on the effects of welfare state arrangements on the dynamics of poverty in Europe. The author contends that the EU is primarily based on economic integration and as a result social policy issues have remained secondary ... -
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财富的分配
Michael Schneider
财富的分配is the first book to provide a comprehensive treatment of the personal distribution of wealth. Michael Schneider uses data from fifteen countries to demonstrate how inequality in the distribution of wealth both... -
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What Has Happened to the Quality of Life in the Advanced Industrialized Nations?
Edited by Edward N. Wolff
The contributors to this volume investigate to what extent welfare has increased in the United States over the postwar period and provide a rigorous examination of both conventional measures of the standard of living, as well as more inc...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Third Sector in Europe
Edited by Adalbert Evers, Jean-Louis Laville
This book explores Europe’s third sector – the non-profit organisations and providers of social services such as mutuals, co-operatives, associations, voluntary organisations and charities: these elements of a civil society are important...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Rethinking the Welfare State
Edited by Martin Rein, Winfried Schmähl
In this book a distinguished group of contributors discuss the changing political economy of pension reform. They focus on those countries which have launched a significant reframing of their pension system. Each chapter provides a de... -
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The Political Economy of the Voluntary Sector
Brian E. Dollery, Joe L. Wallis
In this book, the authors outline how policymakers in advanced countries have moved away from exclusive reliance on the public sector in social service delivery, towards a more multi-faceted approach that seeks to combine the strengths o...
