Super Inequality Theoretical Essays In Economics And Social Policy

Author : Christian Aspalter
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789819951697

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Super Inequality: Theoretical Essays in Economics and Social Policy by Christian Aspalter Pdf

This book bridges the disciplines of micro-economics and social policy in general, and, in particular, behavioral/explanatory social policy and public choice theory, plus Leibenstein’s X-efficiency theory. Being trained as an economist and social policy scientist, the author leaps out of the comfort zone of most social policy scientists and experts, right into the exciting world of micro-economic theory, and then extending and connecting those theories to explain major social, political and economic conundrums of our time. In doing so, the book offers a new set of theoretical—and practical—explanations derived from the general proposition of micro-economic theory, of how government officers, policymakers, administrators and the people themselves alike are, by and large, motivated in their daily as well as strategic (long-term) decision-making. Using a meta-analytical approach (based on a number of grand theories), this book also explains systemic factors behind human behavior and the thereof resulting shortcomings in lifetime outcomes (health, wealth and happiness of a person) and at the same time societal, policy-making, and economic outcomes on societal level, and in global comparison. The outcomes thereof can be measured exactly (and hence validated), especially through the method of empirical comparative social science/economic research. Here, the author also (but not only) introduces the new method of using Aspalter's Standardized Relative Performance (SRP) Index in measuring exactly complex, aggregate performances of multiple governments, and that at the same time also across the entire world.

Author : Christian Aspalter
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1009 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000995275

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The Routledge International Handbook to Welfare State Systems by Christian Aspalter Pdf

Developing countries may not have full-fledged welfare states like those we find in Europe, but certainly they have welfare state systems. For comparative social policy research, the term "welfare state systems" has many advantages, as there are numerous different types/models of welfare state systems around the world. This revised and expanded second edition brings together leading experts to discuss social policy in 32 countries/regions around the world: from the most advanced welfare state systems in Scandinavia and Western Central Europe to the developing powers of Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and Russia. Country-specific chapters provide in general a historical overview, discuss major characteristics of the welfare state system, and analyze country-specific problems, as well as critical current and future trends for further discussions, while also providing one (additional) major focal point/issue for greater in-depth analysis. Including new country case studies on Mali, South Africa, Iceland, Spain, Italy, Greece, and Vietnam, this book is reframed around urgent contemporary issues including migration and rising social inequalities, LGBTQIA+ rights, universal basic income, and transboundary social policy. It will be of great interest to all scholars and students of social policy, social development, development economists and health economists, experts in public policy, health policy (including mental health policy), housing policy, education policy, family policy, cis- and trans-gender policy, migration and population policy, sociology, social work, anthropology, as well as social policy and public policy makers and administrators.

Author : Indraneel Dasgupta,Manipushpak Mitra
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811379444

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Deprivation, Inequality and Polarization by Indraneel Dasgupta,Manipushpak Mitra Pdf

This book offers a collection of original, state-of-the-art essays addressing various aspects of the economic analysis of inequality, deprivation, poverty measurement and social polarization, at both the theoretical and empirical level. Written by leading authorities in the fields of distributional analysis and normative economics, the respective chapters present detailed overviews of cutting-edge literature, as well as stand-alone research. Compiled as a tribute to Satya Ranjan Chakravarty’s lifetime contributions in the fields of normative economics and distributional analysis, it represents an indispensable resource for researchers, policymakers and doctoral students working on issues pertaining to income/wealth distribution, social inclusion and poverty reduction.

Author : Christian Aspalter
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789819924974

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Covid-19 Pandemic by Christian Aspalter Pdf

This book presents an overview of social problems and health problems that arose out of, or were flared up by, the global COVID-19 pandemic. It addresses most vital problems in developed and developing countries from literally around the world, by top country experts in their respective fields of study. The book debates first certain overall thematic topics and then analyzes a number of key country case studies. Apart from a set of key theme/problem-based chapters, the country case studies from major-hit countries in the world are yet another highlight of the book. They also feature, in addition to analyzing the pandemic and policy responses per se, one extra special focal point each. The book hence covers the core of most severe social problems, including health problems, that have been spurred or set off by the COVID-19 pandemic. An overall theory chapter that uses a global data analysis and a short theoretical appraisal on the 'human face' of the Pandemic is also offered at the beginning of book, to bring back humanity and human decency (i.e. decency of the human condition) into the scientific debate as well as policy making arena, which is utterly needed at this point of human development.

Author : Tom Church,Chris Miller,John B. Taylor
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780817919061

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Inequality and Economic Policy by Tom Church,Chris Miller,John B. Taylor Pdf

Drawing from a 2014 Hoover Institution Conference on Inequality in honor of Gary Becker, a group of distinguished contributors explore various measures of inequality in America and address the issue of whether or not it is increasing. In looking at this question and examining policy implications, the authors draw on research on human capital and intergenerational mobility. The authors suggest that the emphasis on inequality and redistribution, while not wrong, is nevertheless misplaced, for it may lead us to adopt policies that will disrupt the progress we have made while doing nothing to promote the kind of growth that is essential to national progress.

Author : David B. Grusky,S. M. Ravi Kanbur,Amartya Kumar Sen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804748438

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Poverty and Inequality by David B. Grusky,S. M. Ravi Kanbur,Amartya Kumar Sen Pdf

This is a collection of essays from leading public intellectuals that identifies major conceptual problems in the analysis of poverty and inequality and advances strategies for reducing poverty and inequality that are consistent with these new conceptual and methodological approaches.

Author : Allan Moscovitch,Glenn Drover
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Canada
ISBN : UCSC:32106006572140

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Inequality by Allan Moscovitch,Glenn Drover Pdf

Author : Christian Aspalter
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811978630

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Ten Worlds of Welfare Capitalism by Christian Aspalter Pdf

This book presents a new step farther into the twenty-first century, for the first time truly combining a comprehensive global data analysis with social policy theory development. The theory of global ideal-typical welfare regimes, also known as the “Ten Worlds of Welfare Regime Theory”, as set forth earlier by Christian Aspalter, is now in this book tested empirically using a quantitative global data analysis for the first time. The strong and rich results fully vindicated the Ten Worlds Theory. All in all, about 150 countries are included in this test, measuring numerous variables on two main dimensions, i.e., povertization and inequality. The innovative approach of using a new indicator, Aspalter’s Standardized Relative Performance Index, is applied, which facilitated the exact measurements of distances between relative performances of each variable, each dimension, each country, and each ideal-typical welfare regime (in relation to one another, respectively). In addition, one explanative and one normative meta-study is added to the book, to point to ways to understand and deal with the global culprit of inequality and, hence, poverty. “On the backdrop of decades of comparative theoretical and empirical research we now, for the first time, have a truly global analysis of welfare regimes.” ---- Peter Abrahamson, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen

Author : I. Gough,G. Olofsson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230379138

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Capitalism and Social Cohesion by I. Gough,G. Olofsson Pdf

This book brings together essays on modernity, social integration, social differentiation and social exclusion by Lockwood, Mouzelis and other eminent social theorists. At the same time it addresses critical issues facing Western democracies, such as social exclusion, the underclass, unemployment, new inequalities, globalization and the new competitive environment. Its novelty lies in the imaginative way it uses social theory to critique old, and suggest new, policies and political practices.

Author : Theo S. Eicher,Stephen J. Turnovsky
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 9780262050692

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Inequality and Growth by Theo S. Eicher,Stephen J. Turnovsky Pdf

Essays exploring the relationship between economic growth and inequality and the implications for policy makers.

Author : Satya R. Chakravarty
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811334320

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Poverty, Social Exclusion and Stochastic Dominance by Satya R. Chakravarty Pdf

This book honors the memory of Tony Atkinson, who made significant contributions to the rigorous study of income inequality, poverty, and redistribution. These essays presented, covering a span of over 30 years of research and scholarship, have been at the forefront of distributional analysis, and many of them are of prime importance for contemporary developments in the real-valued measurement of poverty and inequality, with particular reference to the concepts of fuzzy poverty assessment, vulnerability, heterogeneity/multidimensionality, unit consistency, sub-group decomposability, and dominance criteria. While all of these articles have been previously published—singly or with co-authorship—in a number of professional journals or distinguished edited volumes, this book is greatly enriched by a substantial introductions by the authors, which place the contributions in context, highlights their inter-connectedness, and relates them to the work of Tony Atkinson and other scholars. This book is of intrinsic value to welfare analysts, as well as being a tribute to a very great scholar by a fellow economist.

Author : Huw Beynon,Pandeli Glavanis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317887119

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Patterns of Social Inequality by Huw Beynon,Pandeli Glavanis Pdf

Written by a group of the UK's leading Sociologists, this book covers in one volume all of the themes central to an understanding of contemporary British Society. Essays provide an historical overview of such topics as class, gender, work, ethnicity and community but also make a theoretical and substantive contribution to current debates.

Author : Allan Moscovitch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0598029087

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Inequality by Allan Moscovitch Pdf

Author : Daniel Dorling
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847427205

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Injustice by Daniel Dorling Pdf

Few would dispute that we live in an unequal and unjust world, but what causes this inequality to persist? In the new paperback edition of this timely book, Daniel Dorling, a leading social commentator and academic, claims that in rich countries lnequality is no longer caused by not having enough resources to share, but by unrecognised and unacknowledged beliefs which actually propagate it. Based on significant research across a range of fields, Dorling argues that, as the five social evils identified by Beveridge at the dawn of the British welfare state (ignorance, want, idleness, squalor and disease) are gradually being eradicated, they are being replaced by five new tenets of injustice, that: elitism is efficient; exclusion is necessary; prejudice is natural; greed is good and despair is inevitable. In an informal yet authoritative style, Dorling examines who is most harmed by these injustices and why, and what happens to those who most benefit. With a new Foreword by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, authors of The Spirit Level, and a new Afterword by the author examining developments during 2010, this is hard-hitting and uncompromising in its call to action and continues to make essential reading for everyone concerned with social justice. Book jacket.

Author : Frank Ackerman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1559637986

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The Political Economy of Inequality by Frank Ackerman Pdf

A literature survey of books and articles, with summaries of 70-90 selections, and introductory essays by the editors.