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Télécharger le livre :  Changing Trends in China's Inequality
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Changing Trends in China's Inequality


Hiroshi Sato , Shi Li , Terry Sicular , Ximing Yue


Over the past quarter-century China has seen a dramatic increase in income inequality, prompting a shift in China's development strategy and the adoption of an array of new policies to redistribute income, promote shared growth, and establish a social safety net....

Parution : 2020-03-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Neurointerventions and the Law
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Neurointerventions and the Law


Allan Mccay , Thomas Nadelhoffer , Nicole A Vincent


This volume makes a contribution to the field of neurolaw by investigating issues raised by the development, use, and regulation of neurointerventions. The broad range of topics covered in these chapters reflects neurolaw's growing social import, and its rapid expansion...

Parution : 2020-03-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Measuring Social Welfare
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Measuring Social Welfare


Matthew D. Adler


Disputes over government policies rage in a number of areas. From taxation to climate change, from public finance to risk regulation, and from health care to infrastructure planning, advocates debate how policies affect multiple dimensions of individual well-being, how...

Parution : 2019-09-23
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Télécharger le livre :  The Investment State
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The Investment State


David Stoesz


Historically, the welfare state of the 20th century, which was built on the foundation of an industrial economy, seems poorly adapted to a 21st-century information age. Socially, profound demographic shifts--especially an aging population, increasing numbers of women in...

Parution : 2018-06-25
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Télécharger le livre :  The Fiscalization of Social Policy
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The Fiscalization of Social Policy


Joshua T. Mccabe


In 1970, a single mother with two children working full-time at the federal minimum wage in the US received no direct cash benefits from the federal government. Today, after a period of austerity, that same mother would receive $7,572 in federal cash benefits. This...

Parution : 2018-05-22
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Télécharger le livre :  The Risk of a Lifetime
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The Risk of a Lifetime


Rivka Weinberg


Having children is probably as old as the first successful organism. It is often done thoughtlessly. This book is an argument for giving procreating some serious thought, and a theory of how, when, and why procreation may be permissible. Rivka Weinberg begins with an...

Parution : 2015-10-15
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Télécharger le livre :  The Return of Ordinary Capitalism
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The Return of Ordinary Capitalism


Sanford F. Schram


As Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward argued in the early seventies, in a capitalist economy, social welfare policies alternatingly serve political and economic ends as circumstances dictate. In moments of political stability, governments emphasize a capitalistic...

Parution : 2015-10-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Practical Authority
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Practical Authority


Rebecca Neaera Abers , Margaret E. Keck


How do institutional arrangements established by law become operational in practice? It takes work for them to develop problem-solving capabilities and win recognition from others-what the authors call "practical authority." Drawing from a decade-long, multi-site...

Parution : 2013-08-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Capitalists Against Markets
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Capitalists Against Markets


Peter A. Swenson


Conventional wisdom argues that welfare state builders in the US and Sweden in the 1930s took their cues from labor and labor movements. Swenson makes the startling argument that pragmatic social reformers looked for support not only from below but also from above,...

Parution : 2002-09-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Transformation of the Welfare State
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Transformation of the Welfare State


Neil Gilbert


How much has really changed in the world of welfare? A great deal, according to Neil Gilbert, one of our most deeply engaged and thoughtful analysts of social welfare policy. In this panoramic inquiry, Gilbert spans the globe to assess, in provocative yet dispassionate...

Parution : 2002-08-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Transforming Technology
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Transforming Technology


Andrew Feenberg


Thoroughly revised, this new edition of Critical Theory of Technology rethinks the relationships between technology, rationality, and democracy, arguing that the degradation of labor--as well as of many environmental, educational, and political systems--is rooted in the...

Parution : 2002-02-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Welfare As We Knew It
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Welfare As We Knew It


Charles Noble


Compared to other rich Western democracies, the U.S. does less to help its citizens adapt to the uncertainties of life in a market economy. In Welfare As We Knew It, Charles Noble offers a groundbreaking explanation of why America is so different. Drawing on research in...

Parution : 1997-09-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Faces of Poverty
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Faces of Poverty


Jill Duerr Berrick


Most Americans are insulated from the poor; it's hard to imagine the challenges of poverty, the daily fears of crime and victimization, the frustration of not being able to provide for a child. Instead, we are often exposed to the rhetoric and hyperbole about the...

Parution : 1997-03-27
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Télécharger le livre :  The Enabling State
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The Enabling State


Neil Gilbert , Barbara Gilbert


Over the last two decades new arrangements have emerged for the finance and delivery of social welfare in the United States and other industrial democracies. Moving beyond the conventional paradigm of the welfare state, these arrangements form an alternative model. This...

Parution : 1989-10-19
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