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  • The Culture of Welfare Markets

    The International Recasting of Pension and Care Systems

    by Ingo Bode ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    This book examines the rise of welfare markets in Western societies and explores their functioning, regulation and embeddedness by addressing the particular field of old age provision, including both retirement provision and elderly care. It goes beyond a mere social policy analysis by investigating major cultural underpinnings of the new (quasi-)markets, with these underpinnings embracing ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Regulation

    Edited by Robert Baldwin, Martin Cave, Martin Lodge ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Regulation is often thought of as an activity that restricts behaviour and prevents the occurrence of certain undesirable activities, but the influence of regulation can also be enabling or facilitative, as when a market could potentially be chaotic if uncontrolled. This Handbook provides a clear and authoritative discussion of the major trends and issues in regulation over the last thirty years, ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Economics: The Key Concepts

    by Donald Rutherford ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    An A-Z of contemporary economics in all its forms, Economics: the Key Concepts is an affordable, accessible reference for students, lecturers and economists at every level. The key topics explored include:competition and monopolydevelopment economicsgame theoryproperty rightstaxation.Fully cross-referenced with extensive guides to further reading, this is the essential comprehensive pocket ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Transformation of Welfare States?

    by Nick Ellison ...
    This accessible work provides a ‘political sociology’ of welfare states in industrial societies, with both historical and contemporary perspectives. Ellison focuses on the social and political underpinnings of a number of welfare regimes and looks at the transformations they have undergone and the challenges they face.This book assesses current debates about the role of ‘globalization’ in welfare ... Read more

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  • Hard Choices

    Financial Exclusion, Fringe Banks and Poverty in Urban Canada

    by Jerry Buckland ...
    When low-income city dwellers lack access to mainstream banking services, many end up turning to ‘fringe banks,’ such as cheque-cashers and pawnshops, for some or all of their financial transactions. This predicament of ‘financial exclusion’ – faced by those underserved by conventional financial institutions – is comprehensively examined in Jerry Buckland's powerful study, Hard Choices.The first ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Why We Need a New Welfare State

    Edited by Duncan Gallie, Anton Hemerijck, John Myles, Gøsta Esping-Andersen ...
    Leading scholars in the field examine the highly topical issue of the future of the welfare state in Europe. They argue that welfare states need to adjust, and examine which kind of welfare architecture will further Europe's stated goal of maximum social inclusion and justice. The volume concentrates on four principal social policy domains; the aged and transition to retirement; the welfare issues ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Capitalism

    With a New Postscript on the Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath

    by Geoffrey Ingham ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    Now with a substantial new postscript on the financial crisisThis book provides a basic introduction to the 'nuts and bolts' of capitalism. It starts by examining the classic accounts of capitalism found in the works of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Joseph Schumpeter, and John Maynard Keynes. Each placed emphasis on different institutional elements of capitalism - Smith on the market's ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • New Financial Ethics

    A Normative Approach

    by Aloy Soppe ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    Following the internationalisation, globalisation and deregulation of the financial market over the last few decades, the financial sector has evolved from a servicing industry into an initiating and leading sector in the international industrialised economy. The power of the financial sector, including Credit Rating Agencies, determines the creditworthiness of companies and countries. Today’s ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty in Urban China

    Edited by Hiroshi Sato, Shi Li ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
    Although the Chinese economy is growing at a very high rate, there are massive social dislocations arising as a result of economic restructuring. Though the scale of the problem is huge, very few studies have examined the changes in income inequality in the late 1990s due to a lack of data on household incomes.Based on extensive original research, this book redresses this imbalance, examining the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Employment in the Lean Years:Policy and Prospects for the Next Decade

    Policy and Prospects for the Next Decade

    Edited by David Marsden ...
    Over the last fifteen years, the deregulation of Britain's labour market has led to economic growth, employment opportunities, and a more diverse workforce: the 'fat years'. However, now as Britain faces its lean years with job cuts, rising unemployment, income insecurity, and related social strains, how can and should the government and key labour market policy makers ensure the labour market ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • New Public Management

    An Introduction

    by Jan-Erik Lane ...
    New public management is a topical phrase to describe how management techniques from the private sector are now being applied to public services. This book provides a completely up-to-date overview of the main theoretical models of public sector management, and examines the key changes that have occurred as more and more public services are contracted out to private organisations, as the public ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Money and Finance After the Crisis

    Critical Thinking for Uncertain Times

    Edited by Brett Christophers, Andrew Leyshon, Geoff Mann ...
    Series series Antipode Book Series
    Money and Finance After the Crisis provides a critical multi-disciplinary perspective on the post-crisis financial world in all its complexity, dynamism and unpredictability. Contributions illuminate the diversity of ways in which money and finance continue to shape global political economy and society.A multidisciplinary collection of essays that study the geographies of money and finance that ... Read more

    $29.00 USD