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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “nada stropnik”
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  • Minimum Income Standards and Reference Budgets

    International and Comparative Policy Perspectives

    by Malcolm Torry, Donald Hirsch, Maria Inês Amaro, Dalia Costa, Francisco Branco, Elvira Pereira, Jose Antonio Correia Pereirinha, Tim Goedeme, Abigail Davis, Nada Stropnik, Malin Lindquist Skogar, Anders Eiler Wiese Christensen, Jens Bonke, Elling Borgeraas, Marthe Hårvik Austgulen, Bart van Hulst, Stella Hoff, Benedikt Goderis, J. Cok Vrooman, Jordi Riera Romaní, Elena Carrillo Alvarez, Irene Cussó-Parcerisas, Peter Saunders, Berenice Storms, Kristiina Aalto, Anna-Riitta Lehtinen, Wanga Zembe-Mkabile, Matt Padley, Gemma Wright, Yi Ting Ting, Ad Maulod, Youyenn Teo, Yu Wei Neo, Kok-Hoe Ng, Aya Abe, Pierre Concialdi, Robert Thornton, Bernadette Mac Mahon, Jonathan Bradshaw ...
    Series series Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy
    Research into minimum income standards and reference budgets around the world is compared in this illuminating collection from leading academics in the field.From countries with long established research traditions to places where it is relatively new, contributors set out the different aims and objectives of investigations into the minimum needs and requirements of populations, and the historical ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Economic Well-Being of the Elderly

    A Comparison Across Five European Countries

    by Nada Stropnik ...
    Providing an in-depth analysis of the economic well-being of the elderly across five European countries - UK, Austria, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia - this book offers an assessment of the performance of national social security systems in terms of income provision for the elderly. Each country analysis strictly adheres to a common methodological framework. This enables meaningful cross-country ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Father Involvement in the Early Years

    An International Comparison of Policy and Practice

    by Eloise Poole, Matthew Aldrich, Svetlana Speight, Sara Connolly, Margaret O'Brien, Ziva Humer, Nada Stropnik, Maria Letizia Tanturri, Elisabetta Ruspini, Yve Stoebel-Richter, Petteri Eerola, Jouko Huttunen ...
    Fatherhood is in transition and being challenged by often contradictory forces: societal mandates to be both an active father and provider, men’s own wish to be more involved with their children, and the institutional arrangements in which fathers work and live. This book explores these phenomena in the context of cross-national policies and their relation to the daily childcare practices of ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

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    How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort

    by Perry Mehrling ...
    Walter Bagehot's Lombard Street, published in 1873 in the wake of a devastating London bank collapse, explained in clear and straightforward terms why central banks must serve as the lender of last resort to ensure liquidity in a faltering credit system. Bagehot's book set down the principles that helped define the role of modern central banks, particularly in times of crisis--but the recent ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • What Caused the Financial Crisis

    by Richard A. Posner ...
    The deflation of the subprime mortgage bubble in 2006-7 is widely agreed to have been the immediate cause of the collapse of the financial sector in 2008. Consequently, one might think that uncovering the origins of subprime lending would make the root causes of the crisis obvious. That is essentially where public debate about the causes of the crisis began—and ended—in the month following the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Modern Banking and OTC Derivatives Markets: The Transformation of Global Finance and its Implications for Systemic Risk

    by Burkhard Mr. Drees, Garry Mr. Schinasi, Charles Mr. Kramer, R. Mr. Craig ...
    Series Book 203 - Occasional Papers

    $8.69 USD

  • Lessons from the Financial Crisis

    Causes, Consequences, and Our Economic Future

    Edited by Rob Quail ...
    Series Book 12 - Robert W. Kolb Series
    The world's best financial minds help us understand today's financial crisisWith so much information saturating the market for the everyday investor, trying to understand why the economic crisis happened and what needs to be done to fix it can be daunting. There is a real need, and demand, from both investors and the financial community to obtain answers as to what really happened and why.Lessons ... Read more

    $57.00 USD

  • Reforming Pensions

    A Short Guide

    by Nicholas Barr, Peter Diamond ...
    Mandatory pensions are a worldwide phenomenon. However, with fixed contribution rates, monthly benefits, and retirement ages, pension systems are not consistent with three long-run trends: declining mortality, declining fertility, and earlier retirement. Many systems need reform. This book gives an extensive nontechnical explanation of the economics of pension design. The theoretical arguments ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Banking

    Edited by Allen N. Berger, Philip Molyneux, John O.S. Wilson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Banking provides an overview and analysis of state-of-the-art research in banking written by leading researchers in the field. This handbook will appeal to graduate students of economics, banking and finance, academics, practitioners and policy makers. Consequently, the book strikes a balance between abstract theory, empirical analysis, and practitioner and policy-related ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Systemic and Borderline Banking Crises

    Lessons Learned for Future Prevention

    by Irakli Kovzanadze ...
    In Systemic and Borderline Banking Crises, a well-respected doctor of economic sciences shares his comprehensive analysis of the genesis and growth of the systemic banking crisis in many countries, providing a useful resource for students, lecturers, and bankers who wish to broaden their study of economics.Irakli Kovzanadze is an economics professor who possesses more than twenty years of ... Read more

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  • Top Incomes Over the Twentieth Century

    A Contrast Between Continental European and English-Speaking Countries

    Edited by A. B. Atkinson, Thomas Piketty ...
    Based on a pioneering research programme on the evolution of top incomes, this volume brings together studies from 10 OECD countries. This rapidly growing field of economic research investigates the top segment of the income distribution by using data from income tax records over the past century. As well as describing the source data and methods employed, the authors also discuss the dramatic ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Casino Capitalism

    How the Financial Crisis Came About and What Needs to be Done Now

    by Hans-Werner Sinn ...
    In Casino Capitalism Hans-Werner Sinn examines the causes of the banking crisis, points out the flaws in the economic rescue packages, and presents a master plan for the reform of financial markets. Sinn argues that the crisis came about because limited liability induced both Wall Street and Main Street to gamble with real estate properties. He meticulously describes the process of lending to ... Read more

    $28.79 USD