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  • Basic Income on the Agenda

    Policy Objectives and Political Chances

    by Robert-Jan Veen, Loek Groot ...
    Persisting unemployment, poverty and social exclusion, labour market flexibility, job insecurity and higher wage inequality, changing patterns of work and family life are among the factors that exert pressure on welfare states in Europe. This book explores the potential of an unconditional basic income, without means test or work requirement, to meet the challenges posed by the new social question ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Basic Income, Unemployment and Compensatory Justice

    by Loek Groot ...
    Basic income is a regularly debated topic in various scholarly disciplines (political philosophy, political theory, welfare economics, labour market economics and social policy) and in circles of policy makers, administrators and activists. Since the late 1970s, unemployment is the primary problem for social-economic policy in all welfare states. In Basic Income, Unemployment and Compensatory ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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    by Gosta Esping-Andersen ...
    Few discussions in modern social science have occupied as much attention as the changing nature of welfare states in western societies. Gosta Esping-Andersen, one of the most distinguished contributors to current debates on this issue, here provides a new analysis of the character and role of welfare states in the functioning of contemporary advanced western societies.Esping-Andersen distinguishes ... Read more

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  • The Strange Non-death of Neo-liberalism

    by Colin Crouch ...
    The financial crisis seemed to present a fundamental challenge to neo liberalism, the body of ideas that have constituted the political orthodoxy of most advanced economies in recent decades. Colin Crouch argues in this book that it will shrug off this challenge. The reason is that while neo liberalism seems to be about free markets, in practice it is concerned with the dominance over public life ... Read more

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  • Anti-Piketty

    Capital for the 21st Century

    Edited by Jean-Philippe Delsol, Nicolas Lecaussin, Emmanuel Martin ...
    Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-First Century has enjoyed great success and provides a new theory about wealth and inequality. However, there have been major criticisms of his work. Anti-Piketty: Capital for the 21st Century collects key criticisms from 20 specialists—economists, historians, and tax experts—who provide rigorous arguments against Piketty's work while examining the ... Read more

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  • 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 Economics Anti-Textbook

    A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics

    by Rod Hill, Tony Myatt ...
    Mainstream textbooks present economics as an objective science free from value judgements; that settles disputes by testing hypotheses; that applies a pre-determined body of principles; and contains policy prescriptions supported by a consensus of professional opinion. The Economics Anti-Textbook argues that this is a myth - one which is not only dangerously misleading but also bland and boring. ... Read more

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  • 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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  • 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

  • The Contradictions of Capital in the Twenty-First Century

    The Piketty Opportunity

    Edited by Prof. Pat Hudson, Dr. Keith Tribe ...
    This volume of essays builds upon renewed interest in the long-run global development of wealth and inequality stimulated by the publication of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century. It brings together an international team of leading economic historians and economists to provide an overview of global developments in the theory and reality of inequality and its salience in the ... Read more

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  • 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

  • Comparative Political Economy

    Contours of a Subfield

    by Georg Menz ...
    This new and comprehensive volume covering the subfield of comparative political economy provides a detailed overview over its intellectual roots, clarifies its contents, and introduces the readers to key debates while identifying new and exciting avenues for future research. Ideas, interests, and institutions have traditionally been the main focus points of this field, but the volume argues that ... Read more

    $44.99 USD