Welfare For Markets

Author : Anton Jäger
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226825236

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Welfare for Markets by Anton Jäger Pdf

A sweeping intellectual history of the welfare state’s policy-in-waiting. The idea of a government paying its citizens to keep them out of poverty—now known as basic income—is hardly new. Often dated as far back as ancient Rome, basic income’s modern conception truly emerged in the late nineteenth century. Yet as one of today’s most controversial proposals, it draws supporters from across the political spectrum. In this eye-opening work, Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora Vargas trace basic income from its rise in American and British policy debates following periods of economic tumult to its modern relationship with technopopulist figures in Silicon Valley. They chronicle how the idea first arose in the United States and Europe as a market-friendly alternative to the postwar welfare state and how interest in the policy has grown in the wake of the 2008 credit crisis and COVID-19 crash. An incisive, comprehensive history, Welfare for Markets tells the story of how a fringe idea conceived in economics seminars went global, revealing the most significant shift in political culture since the end of the Cold War.

Author : Ingo Bode
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135905606

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The Culture of Welfare Markets by Ingo Bode Pdf

This book examines the rise of welfare markets in Western societies and explores their functioning, regulation and embeddedness by addressing the particular field of old age provision, including both retirement provision and elderly care. It goes beyond a mere social policy analysis by investigating major cultural underpinnings of the new (quasi-)markets, with these underpinnings embracing collective normative representations of how societies (should) institutionally handle old age. The book looks at whether pension and care systems are converging under the influence of globalization – with marketization being a key phenomenon – and to what extent this is creating a transnational culture of welfare markets. This book, the first book to systematically describe and analyse the phenomenon of welfare markets, elucidates the complex cultural underpinnings of care and pensions systems in an era of marketization, arguing that we are facing a cultural struggle over the way late modern societies conceptualize institutional old-age provision.

Author : Peter Taylor-Gooby
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349263028

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Choice and Public Policy by Peter Taylor-Gooby Pdf

Public policies increasingly emphasize active consumerism, entrepreneurship on the part of service providers and professionals, privatisation and an expanded role for markets. Choice and Public Policy draws on research by economists, psychologists, sociologists and public policy experts. The research demonstrates that the traditional rational choice model of economic behaviour is unsatisfactory in providing accounts of the way people choose in relation to work, saving, spending, investment and social welfare. It also shows that the public policies of active consumerism, public sector entrepreneurship and privatisation based on this approach are seriously flawed.

Author : Peter Taylor-Gooby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0333678206

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Choice and Public Policy by Peter Taylor-Gooby Pdf

Author : Dan Usher
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Economic policy
ISBN : 0719034337

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The Welfare Economics of Markets, Voting and Predation by Dan Usher Pdf

This work dwells upon two themes, each of which differs from traditional welfare economics - predation or taking (as a source of inefficiency in the economy) and the tension between voting and markets as alternative methods of decision-making.

Author : Jane R. Gingrich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139499187

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Making Markets in the Welfare State by Jane R. Gingrich Pdf

Over the past three decades, market reforms have transformed public services such as education, health, and care of the elderly. Whereas previous studies present markets as having similar and largely non-political effects, this book shows that political parties structure markets in diverse ways to achieve distinct political aims. Left-wing attempts to sustain the legitimacy of the welfare state are compared with right-wing wishes to limit the state and empower the private sector. Examining a broad range of countries, time periods, and policy areas, Jane R. Gingrich helps readers make sense of the complexity of market reforms in the industrialized world. The use of innovative multi-case studies and in-depth interviews with senior European policymakers enriches the debate and brings clarity to this multifaceted topic. Scholars and students working on the policymaking process in this central area will be interested in this new conceptualization of market reform.

Author : Ibrahim Ozer Ertuna
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317000044

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Wealth, Welfare and the Global Free Market by Ibrahim Ozer Ertuna Pdf

Can the free market system continue to operate in a traditional way in a world that is now globally connected, financially dysfunctional, and becoming environmentally damaged by excessive consumption? Can an alternative approach that respects human culture and values at least as much as it does profit be readily identified? In this rigorous critique, the author, who is a former member of a World Bank mission and adviser to the Turkish Prime Minister, suggests that the answer to both questions is 'No'. Emphasizing the distinction between wealth and welfare, Ozer Ertuna recognises that the search for a helpful way forward based on classical economic concepts, models and arguments is likely to prove fruitless. In this challenging book you are invited to consider that different approaches are needed. Using a mixture of theory and practical examples, Professor Ertuna examines markets and international trade in the era of globalization from scientific, economic, cultural, philosophical and faith-based viewpoints. He explains how what he describes as 'The Science of the 21st Century' may be part of any new emergent order. His survey of the different perspectives details what is being proposed by the 'Post Autistic Economics' movement; the Nobel laureates of the Santa Fe Institute; 'critical theoreticians'; environmentalists; and others. Vedic philosophy, other belief systems, and the significance of Anatolian culture may not be part of the usual discourse for business leaders, but as the role of business in society becomes ever more critical, an understanding of the range of perspectives brought to us by this book becomes increasingly essential. Those with an academic interest in the issues addressed here, as well as business and community leaders, policy makers, and those in government and non-governmental organizations will want to read this valuable addition to Gower's highly respected Corporate Social Responsibility Series.

Author : Clémence Ledoux,Karen Shire,Franca van Hooren
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030566234

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The Dynamics of Welfare Markets by Clémence Ledoux,Karen Shire,Franca van Hooren Pdf

This volume represents the beginning of a 'cross pollination' of different social scientific disciplines, bridging the boundaries between national and disciplinary epistemic communities in the worlds of European welfare markets. It maps the common ground and uncovers new research directions for the future study of actors, policies and institutions shaping the growth and dynamics of European welfare markets. The book defines welfare markets as politically shaped, regulated and state supported markets that provide social goods and services through the competitive activities of non-state actors. The chapters focus on what happens after states have initiated welfare markets, with equal weight given to the analysis of the agency of state actors and non-state actors in the contraction, stabilisation, and disruption of welfare markets. By focusing the analysis on two cases of welfare markets, private pensions and home-based domestic/care work, the contributions explore and compare the dynamics of different types of markets. The research will be of use to sociologists and scholars of social policy interested in the social dimension of welfare markets, political scientists and political economists, as well as diverse epistemic communities across the social sciences. Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : William Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429720482

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Beyond Politics by William Mitchell Pdf

Traditional public policy and welfare economics have held that market failures are common, requiring the intervention of government in order to serve and protect the public good. In Beyond Politics, William C. Mitchell and Randy T. Simmons carefully scrutinize this traditional view through the modern theory of public choice. The authors enlighten the relationship of government and markets by emphasizing the actual rather than the ideal workings of governments and by reuniting the insights of economics with those of political science. Beyond Politics traces the anatomy of government failure and a pathology of contemporary political institutions as government has become a vehicle for private gain at public expense. In so doing, this brisk and vigorous book examines a host of public issues, including social welfare, consumer protection, and the environment. Offering a unified and powerful perspective on the market process, property rights, politics, contracts, and government bureaucracy, Beyond Politics is a lucid and comprehensive book on the foundations and institutions of a free and humane society.

Author : Amandine Crespy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137571045

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Welfare Markets in Europe by Amandine Crespy Pdf

This book explores the European welfare model, arguing that the rollout of European policies for welfare services has led to increased marketization. The author argues that the rise of profit-making in utilities, transport, child and health care is exacerbating rather than reducing inequalities among citizens, demonstrating how the marketization of European welfare has taken place over successive rounds of policymaking for European integration. These rounds have motivated national level public services reform, as well as contestation over these measures from civil society groups. The study traces the developments of policymaking at EU level since the late 1980s, offers in-depth studies of contentious debates which have sealed the fate of welfare services at the turn of the century, and offers insights on the problems involved with prolonged austerity in Europe. This book therefore shows how European integration is provoking a democratic challenge to what kind of Europe citizens want.

Author : Linus Johansson Krafve
Publisher : Linköping University Electronic Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-13
Category : Public welfare
ISBN : 9789175190587

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Valuation in Welfare Markets by Linus Johansson Krafve Pdf

This thesis takes an interest in how values attain a specific meaning in market reforms of welfare provision. The study builds on exploring how values are enacted rather than treating them as universal and stable. The aim of the thesis is to contribute conceptually to the understanding of how market-making activities in the welfare state bureaucracy handle the values at play in welfare reform. The empirical case is the governance of a so-called care choice system in a Swedish county council. The methodology for the study is “shadowing” of public officials working to formulate a so-called rulebook for care centres. The analysis describes how these officials handle a variety of values when designing the rulebook. How they choose to organize their work – the methods used to collect data about care centre performance, what governance tools they employ, how they arrange their work roles, and how they construct the rulebook – leads to value shifts and determines the meaning of values in practice. The officials’ work practice is political in the sense that it actively shapes the values enacted in the care choice reform. Therefore, it is of great importance to spur a broader debate about the organization of such governance practices, while there is a need to problematize simplistic images of what market reforms of welfare entails in practice. The thesis proposes that an “ecological” – i.e. a situated, reflexive, and malleable – approach to handling of contending values may contribute to such debates.

Author : A.P. Jacquemin,H.W. de Jong
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461342311

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Welfare aspects of industrial markets by A.P. Jacquemin,H.W. de Jong Pdf

The present volume of essays on industrial organization, which are based on conferences held at Nijenrode and Brussels, differs considerably from its predecessor. Even more than in the first volume the essays demonstrate the broad scope of industrial organization analysis. Besides the traditional topics such as economies of scale, monopoly and competition policy, there are essays on methodology, on stagflation, and on the relationship between industrial struc ture and international trade and trade policies. The latter topics are of growing importance. The issue of restructuring industries and the question of whether free trade or some measure of protection is more appropriate are topics of increasing relevance today (and will no doubt continue to be in future years as well). The problem of persistent inflation which other essays address is also of major concern. Apart from being broad in scope and venturing into new fields, this volume is also controversial. Its central feature is a debate about welfare aspects. Here, more than in pure analysis, economists tend to entertain different points of view. One of the participants in the Nijenrode conference, Professor John Blair, who died in December 1976 and whom we honour as having been an active promoter of this kind of meeting, wrote to the editors shortly before his death to say that the first volume had succeeded very well in acquainting the reader with the results of empirical investigations, notably on trends and levels of concentration.

Author : Victor A. Pestoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1016188075

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Beyond the Market and State by Victor A. Pestoff Pdf

Author : Evelyne Huber,John D. Stephens
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226356495

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Development and Crisis of the Welfare State by Evelyne Huber,John D. Stephens Pdf

Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens offer the most systematic examination to date of the origins, character, effects, and prospects of generous welfare states in advanced industrial democracies in the post—World War II era. They demonstrate that prolonged government by different parties results in markedly different welfare states, with strong differences in levels of poverty and inequality. Combining quantitative studies with historical qualitative research, the authors look closely at nine countries that achieved high degrees of social protection through different types of welfare regimes: social democratic states, Christian democratic states, and "wage earner" states. In their analysis, the authors emphasize the distribution of influence between political parties and labor movements, and also focus on the underestimated importance of gender as a basis for mobilization. Building on their previous research, Huber and Stephens show how high wages and generous welfare states are still possible in an age of globalization and trade competition.

Author : Thomas Aronsson,Karl-Gustaf Löfgren,Kenneth Backlund
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1845421515

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Welfare Measurement in Imperfect Markets by Thomas Aronsson,Karl-Gustaf Löfgren,Kenneth Backlund Pdf

A completely rewritten update of: Welfare measurement, sustainability, and green national accounting / Thomas Aronsson, Per-Olov Johansson, Karl-Gustaf L'ofgren. c1997.