Sociology and Social Policy
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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...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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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.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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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 ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Identity in the Age of the New Economy]()
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...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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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...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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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...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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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...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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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...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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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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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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The Economic Impacts of Population Ageing in Japan
Landis MacKellar, Tatiana Ermolieva, David Horlacher, Leslie Mayhew
Whilst all of the major industrialized countries are currently experiencing population ageing, Japan is at the forefront of this demographic trend. This important new book explores the serious economic and social challenges that a rapidl...
