Sociology and Social Policy

The Economics of Social Policy

Peter G. Rosner

This unique book demonstrates how instruments of economics can be usefully employed to analyse social policy. The merits and limits of social policy programmes are discussed as answers to problems of market societies.

Paperback (2005)

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Hardback (2003)

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Health Policy and High-Tech Industrial Development

Edited by Marco R. Di Tommaso, Stuart O. Schweitzer

By weaving together the fields of health economics, industrial organisation and industrial development, this book describes the benefits of promoting a country’s health industry as a way of stimulating its high-technology industrial capa...

Hardback (2005)

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The Ecological Economics of Consumption

Edited by Lucia A. Reisch, Inge Røpke

Research on consumption from an environmental perspective has exploded since the late 1990s. This important new volume cuts across disciplines to present the latest research in the field.

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Sustainable Consumption

Edited by Dale Southerton, Heather Chappells, Bas Van Vliet

Sustainable Consumption is unique, not just in its inter-disciplinary and substantive subject matter (changing networks of utility consumption and production), but because it examines empirically the key theoretical debates underpinning ...

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Identity in the Age of the New Economy

Edited by Torben Elgaard Jensen, Ann Westenholz

Identity in the Age of the New Economy is a multi-faceted view of contemporary employment and identity that questions a number of the myths related to the so-called new economy, knowledge society or network society. It argues that one of...

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Work, Family and Childcare

Joris Ghysels

Work, Family and Childcare studies the joint decisions made by parents regarding the time they allocate to paid employment and childcare. Extensive cross-national data is analysed from three countries that represent the diversity of Euro...

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The Economics of an Ageing Population

Edited by Paolo Onofri

The Economics of an Ageing Population studies the effects of demographic transition on the economies of industrialised countries. The authors demonstrate that an ageing population does not necessarily lead to a reduction in growth, provi...

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Creative Knowledge Environments

Edited by Sven Hemlin, Carl Martin Allwood, Ben R. Martin

Although there is an ever increasing demand for new technology and innovations in the economy and society in general, we currently know little about the conditions for stimulating creativity in relation to research and innovative activit...

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The Economics of Social Security in Japan

Edited by Toshiaki Tachibanaki

This book provides a comprehensive appraisal of social security in Japan, where traditionally the burden of welfare provision has been the main responsibility of the family and employers, rather than the state. However, an ageing populat...

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Social Europe

Edited by Richard Berthoud, Maria Iacovou

Social Europe analyses the diverse dynamics of the lives of people across Europe. It is the first quantitative analysis of its kind to make a systematic comparison of life chances across the fifteen countries of the EU. This wide perspec...

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Poverty and Subsidiarity in Europe

Didier Fourage

This book focuses on the effects of welfare state arrangements on the dynamics of poverty in Europe. The author contends that the EU is primarily based on economic integration and as a result social policy issues have remained secondary ...

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