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  • The Baby Auction

    by Peter Taylor-Gooby ...
    Auctioning babies makes sense, at least that’s what Market World thinks. After all the baby goes to someone who can give them a good start in life, and the parents get a return for their pain and trouble. For Ed and Matt, the Baby Auction sums up everything that’s wrong with a society based on profit. Then one day Matt rescues a drowning child and they face the question: can love and compassion ... Read more

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  • A Kinder City

    A Market World Novel

    by Peter Taylor-Gooby ...
    What place for love in a city ruled by greed?Sarah, spirited and caring, is on her first trip outside her village. But the city is dominated by the grim law of the market – the only relations permitted are between buyer and seller. Her gift of a wagonload of food to those who need it is a crime. David, a serious-minded police cadet who naively trusts in the law, arrests her and finds himself ... Read more

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  • The Immigrant Queen

    by Peter Taylor-Gooby ...
    Hated as a foreigner, despised as a woman, I became First Lady of AthensAspasia falls passionately in love with Pericles, the leading statesman of Fifth Century Athens. Artists, writers and thinkers frequent her salon. She hides her past as a sex-worker, trafficked to the city, and becomes Pericles’ lover. Her writings attract the attention of Socrates, and she becomes the only woman to join his ... Read more

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  • Public Opinion, Ideology and State Welfare

    by Peter Taylor-Gooby ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Economics and Society
    Public Opinion, Ideology and State Welfare (1985) provides a comprehensive explanation of the patterns of ideas about the welfare state held by both academics and by the general public. It argues that the crisis in the welfare state in the 1980s was misunderstood by most writers in the UK – both on the left and on the right. It presents an alternative account of current developments both in the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Blood Ties

    by Peter Taylor-Gooby ...
    Ritchie’s life is shadowed by the death of his wife, Cat, in a car accident twenty-two years previously. He was the driver. He loves his children – Nic, who is bi-polar and often impulsive, and Jack. Both are active in the campaign to welcome asylum-seekers and refugees to Britain. His life comes to a crisis as he realises how much his children despise his trade in advertising and how much the ... Read more

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  • Ardent Justice

    by Peter Taylor-Gooby ...
    Could you hate someone enough to kill them? And what if they deserve it?Ade is a tax-inspector. She hates the City of London. She hates the endless corruption, the bland assumption that tax is for the little people. She hates the casual sexism, the smug self-assurance, the inviolability of the men she deals with, and the cold certainty that nothing you can do will ever touch them. Then Webster ... Read more

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  • Dependency Culture

    by Hartley Dean, Peter Taylor-Gooby ...
    First published in 1992. In this volume the authors discuss that although the idea that the main object of social security is to regulate the lives of poor people rather than to relieve their poverty which fell into disfavour in the post-war heyday of the welfare state; that this idea has more recently returned, as mass unemployment increases the pressure on welfare budgets and the weakness of the ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • After Austerity

    Welfare State Transformation in Europe after the Great Recession

    Edited by Peter Taylor-Gooby, Benjamin Leruth, Heejung Chung ...
    European welfare states are undergoing profound change, driven by globalization, technical changes, and population ageing. More immediately, the aftermath of the Great Recession and unprecedented levels of immigration have imposed additional pressures. This book examines welfare state transformations across a representative range of European countries and at the EU level, and considers likely new ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Attitudes, Aspirations and Welfare

    Social Policy Directions in Uncertain Times

    Edited by Peter Taylor-Gooby, Benjamin Leruth ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited collection uses democratic forums to study what people want from the welfare state in five European countries. The forum method yields new insights into how people frame social issues, their priorities and acceptable solutions. This is the first time democratic forums have been used as a research tool in this field.The contributors’ research show that most people recognize growing ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Political Philosophy and Social Welfare (Routledge Revivals)

    Essays on the Normative Basis of Welfare Provisions

    by Raymond Plant, Peter Taylor-Gooby, Anthony Lesser ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This re-issued work, first published in 1980, represents a work of normative political philosophy which argues positively for the centrality of the obligation to meet the various demands of social need in our society, and will be of particular interest to students of politics, philosophy, social politics and administration.Bringing the insights of analytical Political Philosophy to bear on the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The End of the Welfare State?

    Responses to State Retrenchment

    Edited by Stefan Svallfors, Peter Taylor-Gooby ...
    Series series Studies in European Sociology
    Throughout the world, politicians from all the main parties are cutting back on state welfare provision, encouraging people to use the private sector instead and developing increasingly stringent techniques for the surveillance of the poor. Almost all experts agree that we are likely to see further constraints on state welfare in the 21st Century.Gathering together the findings from up-to-date ... Read more

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  • Reframing Social Citizenship

    by Peter Taylor-Gooby ...
    Throughout the world, governments are restructuring social and welfare provision to give a stronger role to opportunity, aspiration and individual responsibility, and to competition, markets and consumer choice. This approach centres on a logic of individual rational action: people are the best judges of what serves their own interests and government should give them as much freedom of choice as ... Read more

    $42.99 USD