The Economics of Social Protection - Rilegato

Soderstrom, Lars

 
9781847202390: The Economics of Social Protection
Rilegato
ISBN 10: 184720239X ISBN 13: 9781847202390
Casa editrice: Edward Elgar Pub, 2008

Sinossi

This book focuses on arrangements for redistributing consumption opportunities over the life cycle and for providing compensation for income losses or large expenditures due to reasons such as illness and unemployment. After extensive coverage of the nature of inequalities in income and wealth in a market economy, and various notions of social justice, the author discusses public and private transfers in cash or in kind related to old age, childhood, illness and the like. Importantly, the book takes into account both equity and efficiency aspects.

This concise discussion of the welfare state and its alternatives will be of great interest to students of economics at the intermediate level as well as to graduate students of sociology, social work and other social sciences. It will also appeal to politicians and civil service managers with an interest in the fundamentals of social policy.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Lars Söderström, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Lund University, Sweden

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Editore
Edward Elgar Pub
Data di pubblicazione
2008
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
184720239X
ISBN 13 
9781847202390
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
180
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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