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Book SynopsisThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.India is a country of great diversity. The commonly used indicators of ''quality of life'' (such as life expectancy, infant mortality, and literacy) vary tremendously between the different states, rivalling international contrasts between very low performing countries and very high achieving ones.This volume of essays reflects an attempt to draw lessons from the disparate experiences within India, rather than from contrasts with the experiences of other countries. It supplements Dréze and Sen''s India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity, which studies what we can learn from international comparisons of policies, actions, and achievements.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition This is an outstanding survey of some key differences and lessons, within India, concerning some crucial components of human development and self-esteem. The writing is clear and readily accessible to non-specialists * Times Higher Education Supplement *Table of Contents1: Amartya Sen: Radical Needs and Moderate Reforms 2: Jean Dréze and Haris Gazdar: Uttar Pradesh: The Burden of Inertia 3: Sunil Sengupta and Haris Gazdar: Agrarian Politics and Rural Development in West Bengal 4: V.K. Ramachandran: On Kerala's Development Achievements 5: Mamta Murthi, Anne-Catherine Guio, and Jean Dréze: Mortality, Fertility and Gender Bias in India: A District Level Analysis

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Book SynopsisThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.This volume is the second of three addressing a wide range of policy issues relating to the role of public action in combating hunger and deprivation in the modern world. It deals with the background nutritional, economic, social, and political aspects of the problem of world hunger.Volume 2 deals with famine prevention, paying particular attention to sub-Saharan Africa. The topics covered include: the problems of early warning and early action; the politics of famine prevention; the influence of market responses; the role of cash support and employment provision in protecting threatened food entitlements; and long-term issues of reduction of famine vulnerability. In addition to general analyses, the book contains a number of case studies of failures and successes in famineTrade ReviewReview from previous edition the authors are highly respected and the series draws on an extraordinary data base and comparison between countries. Bringing all this together is Amartya Sen. Lamont University Professor at Harvard, who has an unparalleled reputation for his work on famine, equity, and development economics ... This series forms the most definitive recent analysis of the problems of hunger and deprivation in the three continents of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The range of issues and countries covered is nothing short of extraordinary. * Dissent *This is an uncommonly fine collection of papers by prominent authors. A valuable addition to upper-division undergraduate and graduate collections in development economics.' * C.L. Nelson, Davidson College, CHOICE, Dec '91 *the most ambitious treatment of the intertwined issues of hunger, famines and well-being currently in print ... Drèze and Sen's collection is a massive achievement and will doubtless become an obligatory reference for every student on the subject. Certain essays, notably those by Jean Drèze himself, should also become obligatory reading for all practitioners in the field. * Development and Change, Vol. 24 (1993) *Table of Contents1: Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen: Introduction 2: Jean Drèze: Famine Prevention in India 3: Jean Drèze: Famine Prevention in Africa: Some Experiences and Lessons 4: B. G. Kumar: Ethiopian Famines 1973-1985: A Case Study 5: Meghnad Desai: Modelling an Early Warning System for Famines 6: Martin Ravallion: Market Responses to Anti Hunger Policies: Effects on Wages, Prices and Employment 7: Jean-Philippe Platteau: The Food Crisis in Africa: A Comparative Structural Analysis

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Book SynopsisThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.This volume is the last of three addressing a wide range of policy issues relating to the role of public action in combating hunger and deprivation in the modern world. It deals with the background nutritional, economic, social, and political aspects of the problem of world hunger.Volume 3 deals with the strategic options for the elimination of endemic hunger. The topics covered include: the comparative extent of hunger and deprivation in different parts of the world; the influence of food production; the interconnections between economic growth and public support; the role of economic diversification in reducing vulnerability; the potential impact of direct public provisioning on living standards; and the politics of public action. In addition to general analyses, the bookTrade ReviewReview from previous edition the authors are highly respected and the series draws on an extraordinary data base and comparison between countries. Bringing all this together is Amartya Sen, Lamont University Professor at Harvard, who has an unparalleled reputation for his work on famine, equity, and development economics ... This series forms the most definitive recent analysis of the problems of hunger and deprivation in the three continents of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The range of issues and countries covered is nothing short of extraordinary. * Dissent *The volumes will become a standard reference for research in the field of hunger, famines and poverty and some of the papers are appropriate for reading lists in under- and post-graduate courses. The value of the approach to famine and hunger developed by Sen and Dréze ultimately lies in case studies. * Athar Hussain, London School of Economics, The Economic Journal, Dec '91 *the most ambitious treatment of the intertwined issues of hunger, famines and well-being currently in print ... Drèze and Sen's collection is a massive achievement and will doubtless become an obligatory reference for every student on the subject. Certain essays, notably those by Jean Drèze himself, should also become obligatory reading for all practitioners in the field. * Development and Change, Vol. 24 (1993) *Table of Contents1: Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen: Introduction 2: Carl Riskin: Feeding China 3: Sudhir Anand and S. M. Ravi: Public Policy and Basic Needs Provision: Intervention and Achievement in Sri Lanka 4: Ignacy Sachs: Growth and Poverty: Some Lessons from Brazil 5: S. M. Ravi Kanbur: Malnutrition and Poverty in Latin America 6: Peter Svedberg: Undernutrition in Sub Saharan Africa 7: Francis Idachaba: Policy Options for African Agriculture 8: Judith Heyer: Poverty and Food Deprivation in Kenya's Smallholder Agricultural Areas 9: Samuel Wangwe: The Contribution of Industry to Solving the Food Problem in Africa 10: S. R. Osmani: The Food Problems of Bangladesh 11: Kaushik Basu: The Elimination of Endemic Poverty in South Asia

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Book SynopsisWhat do we mean by inequality comparisons? If the rich just get richer and the poor get poorer, the answer might seem easy. But what if the income distribution changes in a complicated way? Can we use mathematical or statistical techniques to simplify the comparison problem in a way that has economic meaning? What does it mean to measure inequality? Is it similar to National Income? Or a price index? Is it enough just to work out the Gini coefficient?Measuring Inequality tackles these questions and examines the underlying principles of inequality measurement and its relation to welfare economics, distributional analysis, and information theory. The book covers modern theoretical developments in inequality analysis, as well as showing how the way we think about inequality today has been shaped by classic contributions in economics and related disciplines. Formal results and detailed literature discussion are provided in two appendices. The principal points are illustrated in the main teTrade ReviewIt complements contemporary theoretical developments * THES *Table of Contents1. First Principles ; 2. Charting Inequality ; 3. Analysing Inequality ; 4. Modelling Inequality ; 5. From Theory to Practice ; A. Technical Appendix 26 ; B. Notes on Sources and Literature

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Book SynopsisThe Right and the Welfare State studies the welfare state policies of conservative and liberal governments. These parties have been assumed to be nothing but the welfare-sceptical flip-side of the Left, but the book presents a new theory arguing that the conventional wisdom is wrong. The policy goals of the Right - and the political means by which they pursue them - is a lot less straightforward than simply pro or con the welfare state. The book uses the distinction between labor market risks and life-course risks in order to explain why the Right''s voters care much more about some social programs than about others and why, consequently, the policies of Right governments are much more diverse than is normally thought. The book also introduces the concepts of marketization via layering and erode and attack to help explain the peculiar approach to reforms adopted by Right governments. The book analyses data on public opinion and public policies from a large set of Western democracies anTable of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. Theoretical Framework ; 3. Preferences for Risk Protection ; 4. A Quantitative Analysis of the Partisan Politics of Risk Protection ; 5. The Fine Art of Marketization ; 6. Erode and Attack ; 7. New Perspectives on the Welfare State

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Book SynopsisThe 1986 article by Grossman and Hart A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration has provided a framework for understanding how firm boundaries are defined and how they affect economic performance. The property rights approach has provided a formal way to introduce incomplete contracting ideas into economic modeling. The Impact of Incomplete Contracts on Economics collects papers and opinion pieces on the impact that this property right approach to the firm has had on the economics profession. It shows that the impact has been felt sometimes in significant ways in a variety of fields, ranging from the theory of the firm and their internal organization to industrial organization, international trade, finance, management, public economy, and political economy and political science. Beyond acknowledging how the property rights approach has permeated economics as a whole, the contributions in the book also highlight the road ahead---how the paradigm may change the way research is perforTrade Review"The contributions in this collection constitute a most worthy celebration of Grossman and Hart's classic paper on incomplete contracting and its deep and wide-ranging impact on economics and beyond." -- Bengt Holmstrom, Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics, M.I.T "The Grossman -Hart incomplete contracts approach represents perhaps the most influential advance in economic theory in the last 30 years. This book assembles many of the remarkable offspring of this truly seminal contribution." -- Andrei Shleifer, Professor of Economics, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsPART 1: Perspectives on Grossman and Hart 1986 ; (1) Introductory Remarks on Grossman and Hart, JPE, 1986 ; John Moore (University of Edinburgh) ; (2) Grossman-Hart (1986) as a Theory of Markets ; Bengt Holmstrom (MIT) ; (3) Remarks on Incomplete Contracting ; Jean Tirole (Toulouse School of Economics) ; (4) Property Rights and Transaction Cost Theories ; Steven Tadelis (University of California-Berkeley and eBay Research Labs) ; (5) Grossman and Hart (1986) and Applied Theory ; Thomas Hubbard (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University) ; PART 2: Incomplete Contracts and Firm Boundaries ; (6) Incomplete Contracts and Firm Boundaries: New Directions ; Wouter Dessein (Columbia University) ; (7) Discussion of Wouter Dessein's <"Incomplete Contracts and Firm Boundaries: New Directions>" ; Francine Lafontaine (University of Michigan) ; (8) Comment on <"Incomplete contracts and Firm Boundaries: New Directions>" by Wouter Dessein ; Michael D. Whinston (MIT) ; PART 3: Incomplete Contracts and Internal Organization ; (9) Incomplete Contracts and the Internal Organization of Firms ; Phillipe Aghion (Harvard University), Nicholas Bloom (Stanford University), John Van Reenen (London School of Economics) ; (10) Comments on Aghion, Bloom and Van Reenen <"Incomplete Contracts and the Internal Organization of Firms,>" P. ; John Roberts (Stanford University) ; (11) The Empirical Implications of the Grossman-Hart Model: Comments on <"Incomplete Contracts an the Internal Organization of Firms,>" by P. Aghion, N. Bloom and J. Van Reenen ; W. Bentley McLeod (Columbia University) ; PART 4: Incomplete Contracts and Corporate Finance ; (12) Corporate Finance, Incomplete Contracts, and Corporate Control ; Patrick Bolton (Columbia University) ; (13) Discussion of Patrick Bolton's <"Corporate Finance, Incomplete Contracts, and Corporate Control>" ; Efraim Benmelech (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University) ; (14) Why Incomplete Contract is Important for Finance ; Luigi Zingales (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business) ; PART 5: Incomplete Contracts and Business Firms ; (15) Oliver Hart's Contributions to the Understanding of Strategic Alliances and Technology Licensing ; Josh Lerner (Harvard University) ; (16) Incomplete Contracts and Venture Capital ; Steve Kaplan (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business) ; (17) Incomplete Contracts and the Role of Small Firms ; Jeremy C. Stein (Harvard University) ; PART 6: Incomplete Contracts and Industrial Organization ; (18) Contracts, Ownership and Industrial Organization: Past and Future ; Patrick Legros (Universite libre de Bruxelles) and Andrew F. Newman (Boston University) ; (19) Discussion of <"Contracts, Ownership and Industrial Organization: Past and Future>", by Patrick Legros and Andrew Newman ; Mathias Dewatripont (Universite libre de Bruxelles and National Bank of Belgium) ; (20) Discussion of <"Contracts, Ownership and Industrial Organization: Past and Future>", by Patrick Legros and Andrew Newman ; Kai-Uwe Kuhn (University of Michigan) ; PART 7: Incomplete Contracts and International Trade ; (21) Grossman-Hart (1986) Goes Global: Incomplete Contracts, Property Rights, and the International Organization of Production ; Pol Antras (Harvard University) ; (22) Comment on Pol Antras: <"Grossman-Hart (1986) Goes Global: Incomplete Contracts, Property Rights, and the International Organization of Production>" ; Elhanan Helpman (Harvard University) ; (23) The Theory of the Firm Goes Global ; Dalia Marin (University of Munich) ; PART 8: Incomplete Contracts and Public Ownership ; (24) Incomplete Contracts and Not for Profit Firms ; Paul Grout (University of Bristol) ; (25) Firm Ownership: The Legacy of Grossman and Hart ; Henry Hansmann (Yale Law School) ; (26) Ex-Ante Anonymity and Government Allocation of Property Rights ; Rohan Pitchford (Australian National University) ; PART 9: Incomplete Contracts and Political Economy ; (27) International Treaties as Incomplete Contracts ; Bard Harstad (University of Oslo) ; (28) Incomplete Contracts and Political Economy ; Gerard Roland (University of Berkeley) ; (29) Incomplete Contracts and the Design of Constitutions ; Guido Tabellini (Bocconi University) ; PART 10: Incomplete Contracts, Mechanism Design and Complexity ; (30) Comments on the Foundations of Incomplete Contracts ; Eric Maskin (Harvard University) ; (31) Comments on the Foundations of Incomplete Contracts ; John Moore (University of Edinburgh) ; (32) Incomplete Contracts and Mechanism Design ; Richard Holden (University of New South Wales) ; (33) Complexity and Undescribability ; Nabil I. Al-Najjar (Nothwestern University), Luca Anderlini (Georgetown University), and Leonardo Felli (London School of Economics) ; PART 11: Incomplete Contracts, Reference Points and Communication ; (34) New Directions of Incomplete Contracts: Reference Points, Communication, and Renegotiation ; Christian Zehnder (University of Lausanne) ; (35) Some Recent Experimental Evidence on Contracts as Reference Points ; Klaus Schmidt (University of Munich) ; (36) Incomplete Contracting in the Field ; Antoinette Schoar (Harvard University)

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Book SynopsisAn overview of human rights concepts and laws for social workers that stresses the need to infuse human rights into social work policy and practice. The volume covers the history and development of human rights from the passage of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 onwards.Trade ReviewFoundation documents provide an essential tool for understanding the issues and applying the understanding to concrete social policy advocacy and action. Canadian Association of Social Workers Bulletin A human rights compass-a preliminary guide for the translation of human rights for social workers... It is to be welcomed. -- Jeremy Roche European Journal of Social Work As soon as this text is published I will adopt it... The day-to-day applications of articles contained in an international policy instrument, such as the right to health care and nutrition, assist social workers in their lobbying efforts with government... This is a text which is overdue for social work students and faculty. -- Rosemary Link, Augsburg College Reichert makes human rights concepts come alive... Practice case examples and human rights analysis of the NASW's Code of Ethics are particularly valuable in orienting the reader to the domestic practice applications of the global human rights movement. -- Lynne M. Healy, University of ConnecticutTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Development and History of Human Rights 2. Universal Declaration of Human Rights 3. Building on the Universal Declaration: The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, by Robert J. McCormick and Elisabeth Reichert 4. The International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, by Robert J. McCormick and Elisabeth Reichert 5. Vulnerable Groups: Women 6. Vulnerable Groups: Children, Persons with Disabilities, and/or HIV-AIDS Gays and Lesbians Older Persons and Victims of Racism 7. International Aspects of Human Rights 8. Applying Human Rights to the Social Work Profession Conclusion Appendices Appendix A: Universal Declaration of Human Rights Appendix B: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Appendix C: Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Appendix D: International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. The role of economic analysis in supporting disability policy – John Cullinan, Sean Lyons and Brian Nolan2. Disability, social inclusion and poverty – Brian Nolan3. Disability and the labour market – Brian Nolan4. The private economic costs of adult disability – John Cullinan and Sean Lyons5. A socioeconomic profi le of childhood disability – John Cullinan and Aine Roddy6. Resource allocation for students with special educational needs and disabilities – Denise Frawley, Joanne Banks and Selina McCoy7. Ageing, disability and policy – Eamon O’Shea8. The economics of dementia – Paddy Gillespie and Sheelah Connolly9. The costs of community living for people with intellectual disabilities – Aoife Callan10. The economics of mental health services – Brendan Kennelly11. The socioeconomic determinants of mental stress – David MaddenIndex

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Book SynopsisCulture plays a central role in our understanding of migration as an economic phenomenon. This title emphasises on the distinctions in culture between migrants, the families they left behind, and the local population in the migration destination.Table of ContentsDedication. About the series: Frontiers of Economics and Globalization. About the Volume: Migration and Culture. List of Contributors. Preface. Chapter 1 Migration and Culture. Chapter 2 Informational Cascades and the Decision to Migrate. Chapter 3 The Measurement of Income Polarization by Ethnic Groups: The Case of Israel Population. Chapter 4 The Effects of School Quality in the Origin on the Payoff to Schooling for Immigrants. Chapter 5 Development and Migration: Lessons from Southern Europe. Chapter 6 Geographic Dispersion and Internal Migration of Immigrants. Chapter 7 Understanding the Wage Dynamics of Immigrant Labor: A Contractual Alternative. Chapter 8 Interactions between Local and Migrant Workers at the Workplace. Chapter 9 Ethnic Competition and Specialization. Chapter 10 Nationality Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Test. Chapter 11 Culture, Investment in Language and Earnings. Chapter 12 Immigration: America's Nineteenth-Century “Law and Order Problem?”. Chapter 13 A Political Economy of the Immigrant Assimilation: Internal Dynamics. Chapter 14 Assimilating Under Credit Constraints: Public Support for Private Efforts. Chapter 15 Immigrant Networks and the U.S. Bilateral Trade: The Role of Immigrant Income. Chapter 16 The Societal Integration of Immigrants in Germany. Chapter 17 Who Matters Most? The Effect of Parent's Schooling on Children's Schooling. Chapter 18 Intergenerational Transfer of Human Capital under Post-War Distress: The Displaced and the Roma in the Former Yugoslavia. Chapter 19 Household Structure of Recent Immigrants to Israel. Chapter 20 Circular Migration or Permanent Return: What Determines Different Forms of Migration?. Chapter 21 Labor Migration, Remittances, and Economic Well-Being: A Study of Households in Rajasthan, India. Chapter 22 Promoting the Educational Success of Latin American Immigrant Children Separated from Parents during Migration. Chapter 23 Cultural Differences in the Remittance Behaviour of Households: Evidence from Canadian Micro Data. Chapter 24 FSU Immigrants in Canada: A Case of Positive Triple Selection?. Chapter 25 What Drives Immigration Policy? Evidence Based on a Survey of Governments' Officials. Chapter 26 Changes in Attitudes toward Immigrants in Europe: Before and After the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Chapter 27 The Implications of Social Norms on Immigration Policy. Chapter 28 Ethnic Fragmentation, Conflict, Displaced Persons and Human Trafficking: An Empirical Analysis. Subject Index. Author Index. Frontiers of economics and globalization. Frontiers of economics and globalization. Copyright page.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores an important, emergent issue: what types of reforms are required to enable welfare states to preserve sustainability? For the purpose of this study, a sustainable welfare state is one that can remain the guarantor against social risks and adverse economic trends for all segments of their respective societies and satisfy sound fiscal criteria (such as the Maastricht requirement for all members of the EMU that their fiscal budget deficit does not exceed 3% of the GDP), without imposing considerable financial burdens on future generations.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Preface: Whose Welfare?; 1. The Contemporary Welfare State: The Issue of Sustainability; 2. The Case of Sweden: From Deep Recession to Favourable Economic Performance; 3. The Case of New Zealand: Liberalizing the Welfare State, with Mixed Results; 4. The Case of the Netherlands: Gradual Reform with Social Cohesion Maintained; 5. The Case of France: Il y a une Éxception Française?; 6. Summary and Conclusions; References; Glossary; Index

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Book SynopsisFor over three decades, the capability approach proposed and developed by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum has had a distinct impact on development theories and approaches because it goes beyond an economic conception of development and engages with the normative aspects of development. This book explores the new frontiers of the capability approach and its links to human development in three main areas. First, it delves into the philosophical foundations of the approach, re-examining its links to concepts of common good, collective agency and epistemic diversity. Secondly, it addresses its ''operational frontier'', aiming to give inclusive explanations of some of the most advanced methods available for capability researchers. Thirdly, it offers a wide range of the applications of this approach, as carried out by a mix of renowned capability scholars and researchers from different disciplines. This broad interdisciplinary range includes the areas of human and sustainable development, inTrade Review'Because of its breadth and depth, this book does not explore just the frontiers of the Capability Approach but also the frontiers of social and economic studies in well-being, freedom and justice. Building bridges between disciplines and tackling diverse topical issues, it represents a real challenge to conventional perspectives on development and quality of life. It is also a great resource for scholars of the capability approaches, both for the fascinating reconstruction by Gay Meeks of the evolution of Amartya Sen's thought and for the other excellent chapters that push the boundaries of the framework.' Pasquale De Muro, Università degli Studi Roma Tre'The capabilities approach (CA), and its associated insistence on understanding poverty as a multidimensional phenomenon, is now an established field of scholarship and practice in international development. By simultaneously striving to fortify its theoretical foundations, methodological instruments and policy applications, those extending the pioneering contributions of CA’s famous founders now preside over a sophisticated, mature and fruitful body of work. This volume amply showcases both the breadth and depth of these efforts, manifest in an array of countries and sectors.' Michael Woolcock, World Bank and Harvard University, MassachusettsTable of ContentsIntroduction Flavio Comim, Shailaja Fennell and P. B. Anand; 1. Key-note chapter: on Sen on the capability of capabilities: the story of a not-for-profit enterprise J. G. Meeks; Part I. The Need for New Foundations: 2. Capabilities and the common good Jonathan Warner; 3. Measuring the meta-capability of agency: theoretical basis for creating a responsibility indicator Mathias Nebel and Maria-Teresa Herrera-Nebel; 4. Equal liberty, reflective equilibrium and education: defending Rawls from Sen's criticisms Caroline Souza and Gabriel Goldmeier; 5. On epistemic diversity, ontologies and assumptions in capability approaches Josh Platzky Miller; 6. Collective agency capability: how capabilities can emerge in a social moment Razia Shariff; Part II. The Operationalisation Frontier: 7. Sen's capability approach, social choice theory and the use of rankings Flavio Comim; 8. Selecting capabilities for development: an evaluation of proposed methods Morten Byskov; 9. From resources to functioning: rethinking and measuring conversion rates Enrica Chiappero, Paola Salardi and Francesco Scervini; 10. Demystifying the use of simultaneous equation models for operationalising the capability approach Jaya Krishnakumar and Ricardo Nogales; Part III. The Application Frontier: 11. Human development in India – comparing Sen and his competitors Des Gasper; 12. Sustainable human development measurement issues: a new proposal Mario Biggeri and Vicenzo Mauro; 13. Inequality and capabilities: a multidimensional empirical exploration in Chile Macarena Orchard and Martina Yopo; 14. Living wages in international supply chains and the capability approach: towards a conceptual framework Stephanie Schrage and Kristin Huber; 15. For a happy human development Tadashi Hirai; 16. Capability of capabilities and aspirations of the middle classes in India Meera Tiwari; 17. The value individual and community social resources Paul Anand; Part IV. The Housing and Urban Frontier: 18. Tracking the transition from 'basic needs' to 'capabilities' for human-centred development: the role of housing in urban inclusion Shailaja Fennell, Jaime Royo-Olid and Matthew Barac; 19. Building regulations through the capability lens: for safer and inclusive built environment? Prachi Acharya; 20. Cities and the capability approach P. B. Anand; Part V. The Education Frontier: 21. Formal education, well-being and aspirations; a capability based analysis on high school pupils from France Robin Vos and Jérôme Ballet; 22. Other people's adaptations: teaching children with special educational needs to adapt and to aspire Cristina Devecchi and Michael Watts; 23. Expanding children's capabilities at the writers' workshop Helena Kiff; Education and 'the capability approach Caroline Hart.

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Book SynopsisIndia initiated liberal economic reforms in 1991 to transform a slow-growing, state-led economy into an open, export-oriented industrialising economy. Though economic growth has accelerated, industrialisation has suffered from the manufacturing sector''s share and labour intensive sectors failing to improve in India''s exports. The government launched the Make in India initiative in 2015 aimed at raising the manufacturing sector''s share in GDP to 25 percent, and to create an additional 100 million jobs by 2022. Though official estimates show an optimistic image of small scale industries, they do not explain why India failed to boost industrial production as expected of the reforms. Why did they fail to keep the domestic market, let alone expand exports? What would it take to meet the ambitious policy goals of the initiative? This book attempts to address these questions. It looks at a series of case studies of the small industry to obtain an in-depth understanding of specific industriTable of Contents1. Introduction R Nagaraj; 2. Garment Cluster in Kolkata: The Untold Story Expansion Relying on Low-End Domestic Demand Satyaki Roy; 3. Constraints to Upgrading and Employment Expansion in the Tiruppur Knitwear Cluster M Vijayabaskar; 4. Determinants of Employment in the Indian Automobile Industry Madhuri Saripalle; 5. Upgrading Technology and Space as Collective Strategy: Creation of Jobs and Market Potential in Gujarat's Ceramic Clusters Keshab Das; 6. Sports Equipment Manufacturing in India: A Firm-Level Inquiry into Growth and Employment Dynamism Varinder Jain; 7. Aligarh Lock Cluster: Unravelling the Major Impediments Tareef Husain; 8. Continued Misery or a Change in Fortune? The Case of Howrah Foundry Industry Judhajit Chakraborty; 9. Redevelop and Perish, or Survive and Grow? The Case for Supporting Informal Leather Enterprises in Dharavi, Mumbai Kshiti Gala; 10. Growth Performance, Competitiveness, and Employment in MSMEs: A Case Study of Rajkot Engineering Cluster Dinesh Awasthi and Amita Shah; 11. Manufacturing and Automation Sunil Mani.

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Book SynopsisThese attributes, coupled with the host country's welfare system, attract low-skilled migrants, who find a generous welfare state particularly attractive, while deterring skilled migrants, who recognize that welfare states likely have higher redistributive taxes.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Welfare State 3. Migration State 4. Free versus Controlled Migration: Analytics 5. Free versus Controlled Migration: Migration 6. Principles of International Taxation 7. Intra-Union Competition 8. Intra-Union Coordination 9. Competition versus Coordination: the U.S. and the EU 10. Aging and Migration: the U.S. and the EU 11. Is the Net Fiscal Burden a Proper Predictor of the Political Attitude towards Migration 12. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisBlack Religious Landscaping in Africa and the United States uses the prism of spatial theory to explore various aspects of Black landscapes on the African continent and Black Atlantic diasporic locations. The volume explores the ways in which Black people in Africa and in the Diaspora have identified obstacles and barriers to Black freedoms and have constructed counter-landscapes in response to these obstacles. The chapters in the book present diverse representations of the Black creative impulse to form religious landscapes and construct social, economic and political spaces that are habitable for Black people and Black bodies. These landscapes and spaces are physical, psychological and conceptual. They are gendered and racialized in ways that are shaped by their specific religious, geographic and socio-historical contexts. These contexts are influenced by colonial systems and institutions of modern slavery. The landscapes that people of African descent struggle to constructTable of ContentsAcknowledgements – Introduction – Psychological, Aesthetical, and Religio-Cultural Landscaping – Tracey E. Hucks: In Search of a "Land Language": Explorations of Race and Land in the African Diaspora – Maarman S. Tshehla: The Struggle for the African Soul in the Interface between Koma (Christian Missions) and Thuto (Basotho Traditions) – Itumeleng D. Mothoagae: The Role of Religion in the Formation of White Nationalism: Exclusion, Race, Ethnicity and Identity in Shaping Democratic South Africa’s Identity – Boitumelo Senokoane/Mofenyi L. Mataboge: Back to Africa: Towards a Re-imagination of "Youth" in Africa – Melinda Contreras-Byrd: A Psychologist’s Perspective on Becoming Agents of an Unruly Transformation – Karen D. Crozier: Affirmative Action and the New Jim Crow: Listening for and Living from the Sound of the Genuine – Sites of Religious Landscaping: Black Churches and African Independent Churches – Donn Worgs: "To Be Relevant": Black Churches, Education and Productive Engagement – Ronald E. Peters: The Reconnectional Hope: Interfaith Transformation of Recidivism to Regeneration of Community – Clemence Makamure/Vengesai Chimininge: Leadership Succession Practices in African Independent Churches in Zimbabwe: The Case of Zion Apostolic Faith Mission Church – Vengesai Chimininge/Clemence Makamure: The Place of Women in African-Initiated Churches in Zimbabwe: The Case of Zionist and Apostolic Churches – Daniel Pratt Morris-Chapman: Pick Up Your Cash and Follow Me: Pentecostalism, Prosperity and Socioeconomic Empowerment in Southwest Cameroon – Conclusion – Notes on Contributors – Index.

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Book SynopsisChristopher Deeming and Paul Smyth, together with internationally renowned contributors, illustrate how the merging of `social investment' and `inclusive growth and development' agendas, together with the environmental imperative of `sustainability', is forging an important new social policy framework and shaping a new global development agenda.Trade Review“What is particularly interesting about this book is the way in which its diverse contributions are all evidence for new perspectives emerging from within current social and economic policy: the new evolving out of the old rather than coming from elsewhere to replace it, and at the same time being genuinely new.” Citizen’s Income"Gathering excellent contributors, this edited volume is a must read for students of social policy interested in inclusive growth and social investment." Daniel Béland, Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy ?"A stimulating read encompassing timely and important topics such as inclusive growth and social investment – and with a global perspective." Bent Greve, Roskilde University, DenmarkTable of ContentsIntroduction and overview ~ Christopher Deeming and Paul Smyth Part I: Theoretical frameworks Social investment, inclusive growth that is sustainable and the new global social policy ~ Christopher Deeming and Paul Smyth Taking social investment seriously in developed economies ~ Anton Hemerijck Making growth inclusive: perspectives on the role of social policy in developing economies ~ Sarah Cook The challenges of inclusive growth for the developmental welfare state ~ Huck-ju Kwon Part II: Policy applications Measuring and monitoring inclusive growth in developing and advanced economies: multiple definitions, open questions and some constructive proposals ~ Stephan Klasen Towards an employment strategy of inclusive growth ~ Günther Schmid Active labour market policies for an inclusive growth ~ Giuliano Bonoli Education and skills for inclusive growth ~ Marius R. Busemeyer Inclusive growth and social investments over the life course ~ Jon Kvist Inclusive economic growth for health equity: in search of the elusive evidence ~ Guillem López Casasnovas and Laia Maynou Social protection, social investment and inclusive development ~ James Midgley Social politics puzzling: governance for inclusive growth and social investment ~ Jane Jenson Limits to Growth revisited ~ Tim Jackson and Robin Webster Towards a new global social policy framework? ~ Paul Smyth and Christopher Deeming

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together research relating to the economics of disability in Ireland. It addresses a range of issues of relevance to the economic circumstances of people with disabilities, considering topics such as social inclusion, poverty, the labour market, living standards and public policy. It also considers issues of specific relevance to children, working-age adults and older people with disabilities, providing important evidence that can help improve disability policies, services and supports. Each chapter presents a clear and relatively non-technical treatment of the specific topic under consideration, making it accessible to a greater number of interested readers. In doing so, it provides an important addition to our knowledge and understanding of the economics of disability and will serve as a useful and up-to-date resource for a range of interested parties both in Ireland and internationally.Table of Contents1. The role of economic analysis in supporting disability policy – John Cullinan, Sean Lyons and Brian Nolan2. Disability, social inclusion and poverty – Brian Nolan3. Disability and the labour market – Brian Nolan4. The private economic costs of adult disability – John Cullinan and Sean Lyons5. A socioeconomic profi le of childhood disability – John Cullinan and Aine Roddy6. Resource allocation for students with special educational needs and disabilities – Denise Frawley, Joanne Banks and Selina McCoy7. Ageing, disability and policy – Eamon O’Shea8. The economics of dementia – Paddy Gillespie and Sheelah Connolly9. The costs of community living for people with intellectual disabilities – Aoife Callan10. The economics of mental health services – Brendan Kennelly11. The socioeconomic determinants of mental stress – David MaddenIndex

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Book SynopsisIn his academic work, Robert Higgs has dissected the government's shrewd secret excesses that lead to the Welfare State, the Warfare State, and the Administrative State. For several decades he has unstintingly chronicled the federal, state, and local governments' malfeasance in these many areas of life that all levels of government have intruded upon without Constitutional mandate. In this book, however, are essays that show a whimsical, introspective, and personal side of this world renowned scholar. From the myth that the government has derived its powers from the consent of the governed to the role of independent experts in formulating monetary and fiscal policy; from the government's duplicity in announcing the unemployment rate in a given month to how the state entraps us, if you want to see a true polymath at work, these lofty, serious, sad, and illuminating essays will educate you beyond what you had thought possible about life, liberty, and the economy.

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Book SynopsisIn his academic work, Robert Higgs has dissected the government's shrewd secret excesses that lead to the Welfare State, the Warfare State, and the Administrative State. For several decades he has unstintingly chronicled the federal, state, and local governments' malfeasance in these many areas of life that all levels of government have intruded upon without Constitutional mandate. In this book, however, are essays that show a whimsical, introspective, and personal side of this world renowned scholar. From the myth that the government has derived its powers from the consent of the governed to the role of independent experts in formulating monetary and fiscal policy; from the government's duplicity in announcing the unemployment rate in a given month to how the state entraps us, if you want to see a true polymath at work, these lofty, serious, sad, and illuminating essays will educate you beyond what you had thought possible about life, liberty, and the economy.

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Book SynopsisAll developed countries in the world today, especially in the U.S., face a common problem: they have promised more than they can deliver. People are expecting benefits for which taxpayers are not likely willing or able to pay. In addition, the benefits that government provides are all too often delivered inefficiently, impersonally, inflexibly, and in a way that encourages perverse behavior on the part of the beneficiaries. In New Way to Care: Social Protections That Put Families First, the author, John C. Goodman, considers this dilemma and explores reasonable alternatives to our current dependency on inefficient government programs. Dr. Goodman guides us through the governmental maze of healthcare, social security and other governmental insurance programs, and offers important solutions that are relevant for today.Table of Contents Introduction: A Better Approach to Public Policy Section I: Managing Life's Risks 1. The Case for Change 2. Opportunities for Change 3. The Mechanics of Change 4. The Parameters of Change Section II: Taking a Closer Look at the Risks 5. The Risk of Growing Too Old and Outliving One's Assets 6. The Risk of Dying Too Young and Leaving Dependent Family Members without Resources 7. The Risk of Becoming Disabled and Facing Financial Ruin 8. The Risk of Facing a Major Health Event and Being Unable to Afford Needed Medical Care 9. The Risk of Becoming Unemployed and Finding No Market for One's Skills Section III: Taking a Closer Look at Some Solutions 10. Addressing the Risks of Old Age 11. Opting Out of Social Security Survivors' Insurance 12. Opting Out of Social Security Disability Insurance 13. Addressing the Risk of Ill-health 14. Opting Out of Unemployment Insurance Conclusion: Life Under a Reformed System

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Book SynopsisThe papers in Measurement of Poverty, Deprivation, and Social Exclusion represent the most current research on poverty, deprivation, and income mobility. They illustrate the multidimensionality of poverty that is difficult to capture in any one measure. The volume presents state-of-the-art research that is relevant to poverty academics globally. The papers use a variety of methods that measure the persistence of poverty over time and cover numerous countries and circumstances. A selection of papers focus on single countries while others include comparisons of countries. The volume begins with a set of papers that examine particular groups that are most vulnerable to poverty and deprivation in a variety of places. These include measuring the persistence of poverty of immigrant children in Scandinavian countries. Finally the volume concludes with papers that analyze the relationships of two or more measures together to further elucidate what we know if we have only one measure of poverty.Table of ContentsPoverty Profiles and Well-Being: Panel Evidence from Germany. Once Poor, Always Poor? Do Initial Conditions Matter? Evidence from the ECHP. Factors Associated with Poverty and Indigence Mobility in Five Latin American Countries. The Contribution of Income Mobility to Economic Insecurity in the US and Spain during the Great Recession. The Role of Skills in Understanding Low Income in Canada. Immigrant Child Poverty – The Achilles Heel of the Scandinavian Welfare State. Rural Poverty and Ethnicity in China. Static and Dynamic Disparities between Monetary and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement: Evidence from Vietnam. Hardship, Debt, and Income-Based Poverty Measures in the USA. Modeling the Joint Distribution of Income and Wealth. About the Editors. Copyright page. Measurement of Poverty, Deprivation, and Economic Mobility. Introduction. List of Contributors. Research on Economic Inequality. Measurement of Poverty, Deprivation, and Economic Mobility. About the Authors.

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Book SynopsisThe essays in this series offer fresh theoretical and methodological insights into the key issues in the field of economic inequality. The content is comprised of highly topical subject matter with key researchers in the field contributing.Trade ReviewEditors Bishop and Rodriguez present readers with a collection of papers selected from research presented at the sixth ECINEQ meeting, held in Luxembourg in 2015. The selections that make up the main body of the text are devoted to reference groups and the poverty line; the vulnerable and the poor; the effects of reducing inequality in household education, health, and access to credit on pro-poor growth, and other related subjects. John A. Bishop is a faculty member of East Carolina University in North Carolina. Juan Gabriel Rodriguez is a faculty member of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain. -- Annotation ©2017 * (protoview.com) *Table of ContentsIntroduction Reference groups and the poverty line: an axiomatic approach with an empirical illustration - Satya R. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, Joseph Deutsch, Zoya Nissanov and Jacques Silber The Vulnerable Are Not (Necessarily) The Poor - Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay Effects Of Reducing Inequality In Household Education, Health And Access To Credit On Pro-Poor Growth: Evidence From Cameroon - Boniface Ngah Epo and Francis Menjo Baye Labor Market Policies, Informal Labor Markets, And Wage Dispersion - Claudia Trentini The Formal/Informal Employment Earnings Gap: Evidence From Turkey - Aysit Tansel and Elif Oznur Acar The Role Of Minimum Wage And Income Transfer Policies On The Labour Market: The Case Of Argentina - Fernando Groisman Performance And Inequality In Health: A Comparison Of Child And Maternal Health Across Asia - Bénédicte H. Apouey and Jacques Silber Parental Incarceration And Social Exclusion: Long-Term Implications For The Health And Well-Being Of Vulnerable Children In The United States - Rosalyn D. Lee, Xiangming Fang and Feijun Luo Can a concern for status reconcile diverse social welfare programs? - Oded Stark and Marcin Jakubek How Individuals' Perceptions Of Inequality May Affect Their Perceptions Of Corruption: A Challenge To New Democracies - Matthew Loveless Tax Evasion And Underground Inequality: A Parametric Analysis - Roberto Fantozzi Macroeconomic Determinants Of Inequality Of Opportunity In The United States: 1970 2009 - Gustavo A. Marrero and Juan Gabriel Rodríguez Occupational Choice And Earnings Mobility In The Work Life Empirical Evidence From Europe And The United States - Veronika V. Eberharter Relative Income Distribution In Six European Countries - Ilaria Petrarca and Roberto Ricciuti

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Book SynopsisOver recent years it has become increasingly clear that the European Union is falling short of its promise to enhance social cohesion across the continent. Welfare state modernization has been at the centre of divisive debates over the redistribution of wealth and imbalances between a wealthy European core and its peripheries. Some see the policies and governance of the EU as part of the problem, others rather as the solution. This book examines the key issues facing the EU’s social policy-making. Each chapter focuses on a single challenge and explores the arguments and considerations that coalesce around it. The book helps students and researchers alike to understand how the EU operates and shapes social policy on multiple levels, and to better assess the EU’s role in supporting social cohesion.Trade ReviewThanks to Crespy’s impressive knowledge of the field and her admirable clarity of writing, readers are guided through academic and policy debates about Social Europe to attain a full understanding of present-day challenges and future perspectives. A must-read for students, researchers and all those interested in a fairer and more democratic European Union. -- Maurizio Ferrara, Professor of Politics, University of MilanAmandine Crespy, a leading scholar on Social Europe, presents an excellent 'state of the art' on the (increasing) complexity of European social integration. This book is an excellent, well-documented, analysis of the piecemeal development of social Europe, presented clearly and pedagogically. I especially appreciate how critical reflections on the challenges with the social dimension of Europe are woven into each chapter. Strongly recommended for academics, practitioners and students interested in the social dimension of Europe. -- Caroline de la Porte, Copenhagen Business SchoolTable of ContentsIntroduction: “Social Europe”: irrelevant, catching up, or dangerous?1. What is the European social question?2. Is the EU a key player in addressing social issues?3. Are socially-minded actors too weak in EU policy-making?4. Is European social regulation a thing of the past?5. Does liberalization undermine social cohesion?6. Does the European social dialogue really protect European workers?7. Does soft coordination support welfare states?8. Is redistribution unconditional?9. Is the EU fit for the social challenges of the twenty-first century?Conclusion: from the social question to the democratic questionIndex of CJEU Rulings

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Book SynopsisIn an era when many of us depend on debt to survive but struggle with its consequences, Financing Prosperity by Dealing with Debt draws together current thinking on how to solve debt crises and promote prosperity.

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Book SynopsisThis volume of Research on Economic Inequality contains research on how we measure poverty, inequality and welfare and how these measurements contribute towards policies for social mobility. The volume contains eleven papers, some of which focus on the uneven impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on poverty and welfare. Opening with debates on theoretical issues that lie at the forefront of the measurement of inequality and poverty literature, the first two chapters go on to propose new methods for measuring wellbeing and inequality in multidimensional categorical environments, and for measuring pro-poor growth in a Bayesian setting. The following three papers present theoretical innovations for measuring poverty and inequality, namely, in estimating the dynamic probability of being poor using a Bayesian approach, and when presented with ordinal variables. The next three chapters are contributions on empirical methods in the measurement of poverty, inclusive economic growth and mobility, with a focus on India, Israel and a unique longitudinal dataset for Chile. The volume concludes with three chapters exploring the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic as an economic shock on income and wealth poverty in EU countries and in an Argentinian city slum.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay Chapter 1. Multilateral Wellbeing And Inequality Measurement With Ordered Categorical Data: Health, Consumption And The Ageing Process In China; Gordon Anderson and Rui Fu Chapter 2. Bayesian Inference For Parametric Growth Incidence Curves; Edwin Fourrier-Nicolaï and Michel Lubrano Chapter 3. Modeling Household Poverty Status Using Repeated Cross-Sectional Surveys; Maria Grazia Pittau, Roberto Zelli, and Saida Ismailakhunova Chapter 4. On The Measurement Of Health Poverty In The Case Of Ordinal Variables:The Case Of 29 European Countries In 2009 And 2018; Pudarik Mukhopadhaya and Jacques Silber Chapter 5. Maximum Inequality: The Case Of Categorical Data; Frank A Cowell and Emmanuel Flachaire Chapter 6. Multidimensional Poverty And Inclusive Growth In India: An Analysis Using Growth Elasticities; Suman Seth and Sabina Alkire Chapter 7. On The Measurement Of Relative, Absolute And Intermediate Pro-Middle Class Growth; Jacques Silber and Osnat Peled Chapter 8. Poverty Traps And Affluence Shields: Modelling The Persistence Of Income Position In Chile; Joaquín Prieto-Suarez Chapter 9. Poverty In The COVID-19 Era: Real Time Data Analysis On Five European Countries; Giorgia Menta Chapter 10. Finances Of European Households Throughout The Pandemic; Romina Gambacorta, Alfonso Rosolia, and Francesca Zanichelli Chapter 11. The Covid-19 crisis and lockdown measures: A portrait from a slum in urban Argentina; Martin Jose Napal, Maria Emma Santos, and Gimena Ramos

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Book SynopsisThis book explores an important, emergent issue: what types of reforms are required to enable welfare states to preserve sustainability? For the purpose of this study, a sustainable welfare state is one that can remain the guarantor against social risks and adverse economic trends for all segments of their respective societies and satisfy sound fiscal criteria (such as the Maastricht requirement for all members of the EMU that their fiscal budget deficit does not exceed 3% of the GDP), without imposing considerable financial burdens on future generations.Trade Review'Deeply rooted in a sound political economy analysis, this book is a must both for those who are still faithful to some sort of welfare state and for pro-market hardliners.'Wladimir Andreff, Professor at the University of Paris, Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne (CNRS), Vice-president of the French Economic AssociationTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Preface: Whose Welfare?; 1. The Contemporary Welfare State: The Issue of Sustainability; 2. The Case of Sweden: From Deep Recession to Favourable Economic Performance; 3. The Case of New Zealand: Liberalizing the Welfare State, with Mixed Results; 4. The Case of the Netherlands: Gradual Reform with Social Cohesion Maintained; 5. The Case of France: Il y a une Éxception Française?; 6. Summary and Conclusions; References; Glossary; Index

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Book SynopsisVolume 16 of "Research on Economic" contains a selection of thirteen papers from the Second Biannual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Berlin, July, 2007. This conference brings together both established scholars in the field of income distribution as well as advanced graduate students and new Ph.D's. The multi-day conference provides a forum for over 150 participants to share their work with one another. The papers contained in this volume are selected from a few of the many different sub-fields represented at the conference. As the title suggests a major emphasis of the volume is to collect work on the inequality of opportunity. An additional emphasis of the volume is on inequality measurement issues. Finally, the volume is designed to present work from both senior researchers and as well as emerging scholars. The volume begins with an essay on equal liberties by Serge-Christophe Kolm. The second paper examines the relationship between inequality and envy. The next four papers address the inequality of opportunities. Empirical studies of the equality of opportunity include Africa, Italy, Germany, and the United States. The measurement section also contains four papers. The topics covered in these papers include welfare analysis with ordinal data, unit consistency and multidimensional inequality indices, unit consistency and intermediate inequality indices, and the examination of two newly rediscovered inequality measures originally introduced by Bonferroni and De Vergotini. The volume also includes papers on the intergenerational transfer of income inequality and poverty in the US and Germany, income inequality and mobility in Argentina, the use of experimental methods to understand inequality aversion, and the recognition that measuring unemployment is an ethical problem, not simply an exercise in statistical measurement.Table of ContentsEqual liberties and the resulting optimum income distribution and taxation. Inequality and envy. Interdependent preferences in the design of equal-opportunity policies. Higher education and equality of opportunity in Italy. Inequality of opportunity for income in five countries of Africa. Equalizing income versus equalizing opportunity:a comparison of the United States and Germany. Intergenerational income inequality and dynastic poverty persistence: Germany and the United States compared. Measuring inequality with ordinal data: a note. Multidimensional unit- and subgroup-consistent inequality and poverty measures: some characterizations. Rankings of income distributions: a note on intermediate inequality indices. The Bonferroni, Gini, and De Vergottini indices. Inequality, welfare, and deprivation in the European union in 2000. On various ways of measuring unemployment, with applications to Switzerland. Income mobility in Argentina. Risk level and inequality preference. Research on Economic Inequality. Inequality and Opportunity: Papers from the Second ECINEQ Society Meeting. Copyright page. List of Contributors. Introduction.

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the relationship between law and economics principles and the promotion of social justice. By social justice, we mean a vision of society that embraces more than traditional economic efficiency. Such a vision might include, for example, a reduction of subordination and discrimination based on race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability or class; increased wealth dispersion throughout all sectors of society; a safe and healthy environment; worker rights; and, a flourishing political democracy. The volume chapters here fall into four main categories, Assumptions of Law & Economics; Law & Economics: Implications of Behavioralism; Economics and Corporate Governance: Finding the Holes; and, Gender, Class and Race: Implications of and Alternatives to the Dominant Economic Paradigm. In addition, most of the chapters invoke the lens of corporate law theory or the corporate context as part of their analysis of the intersection of economics and social justice.Table of ContentsPreface. List of Contributors. Introduction. Economics as a map in law and market economy. An anatomy of corporate legal theory. The single constituency argument in the economic analysis of business law. Corporate law and the rhetoric of choice. Faith Based Investing: are shares entitled to the residual?. Corporate social responsibility: Lessons from the South on law and business norms. The discourse of “contract” and the law of marriage. Behavioral biology, the rational actor model, and the new feminist agenda. Race to the top of the corporate ladder: What minorities do when they get there. Workplace racial discrimination and the professionals at the center of corporate hierarchies. Research in law and economics: A journal of policy. Law & economics: Toward social justice. Copyright page.

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Book SynopsisHow immigrants and their descendants fare in the host society and in particular in the labor market is a very important question. While differences among ethnicities have been found to be marked and persistent within many host countries, and while the labor market consequences of diversity have been recognized, they have not been sufficiently examined. This volume contains fresh knowledge to help better understand the complex relationship between ethnic or minority groups, the role of ethnic identity and their disparate economic performance; 12 papers that individually and collectively go to the heart of this question. Offering a new paradigm, they tackle and interlink four important themes of immigrants' integration: ethnic identity, citizenship, interethnic marriages, and immigrant entrepreneurship. These papers offer insights and answers to challenging questions for six different immigration countries while they study countless different ethnic and immigrant groups. It is the aim of this volume to bring the role of ethnic identity in the forefront of scientific and political discussion and provide a link among these themes, anticipating new trends and directions in this area. An anthology of these questions is: Does ethnic identity affect the employment and earnings of immigrant groups and in what way? Does dual nationality affect assimilation? To what extent do social interactions determine the employment outcomes of ethnic minorities? Why do Mexican-Americans exhibit low self-employment rates? Which are the factors that influence the composition of the workforce in terms of ethnic-background? Do interethnic marriages influence transitions into and out of ethnic self-employment? And, are interethnic marriages a guarantee to high human capital achievement of their offsprings?Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Preface. Work and money: payoffs by ethnic identity and gender. Ancestry versus ethnicity: the complexity and selectivity of Mexican identification in the United States. Ethnicity, assimilation, and harassment in the labor market. Citizenship in the United States: the roles of immigrant characteristics and country of origin. Assessing the case for and against dual nationality: A study of Latin Americans' assimilation in the United States. Social determinants of labor market status of ethnic minorities in Britain. Mexican-American self-employment: a dynamic analysis of business ownership. The employees of native and immigrant self-employed. Immigrant self-employment: does intermarriage matter?. Cross-nativity marriages and human capital levels of children. Dynamics and diversity: ethnic employment differences in England and Wales, 1991–2001. Race, ethnicity, and the dynamics of health insurance coverage. Research in Labor Economics. Research in Labor Economics Volume 29. Copyright page.

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Book SynopsisFour years ago "Research in Experimental Economics" published experimental evidence on fundraising and charitable contributions. This volume returns to the intrigue with philanthropy. Employing a mixture of laboratory and field experiments as well as theoretical research we present this new volume, "Charity with Choice". New waves of experiments are taking advantage of well calibrated environments established by past efforts to add new features to experiments such as endogeneity and self-selection. Adventurous new research programs are popping up and some of them are captured here in this volume. Among the major themes in which the tools of choice, endogeneity, and self-selection are employed are: What increases or decreases charitable activity? and How do organizational and managerial issues affect the performance of non-profit organizations?Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Experiments with public goods: From cooperation to formation. Tacit coordination in contribution-based grouping with two endowment levels. The efficiency-equality tradeoff in public sector charity provision. Retained earnings maximizing nonprofit enterprises. Endogenous production technology in a public goods enterprise. What can social preferences tell us about charitable giving? Evidence on responses to price of giving, matching, and rebates. Charity auctions in the experimental lab. Research in experimental economics. Research in experimental economics. Copyright page.

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Book SynopsisPoverty, and calls to end it, date back centuries. Even in prosperous modern times, despite the huge transformation of society, poverty has persisted. The challenge is getting harder, not easier, because of more recent changes in society such as the social distance between people in poverty and others, changing family structures (and our mixed views about them) and changing community patterns. The recent economic crisis seems set to leave us with a very different economy in which some may never work. This book looks back at the struggle to rid the country of poverty and asks if the struggle is worth it. What would a poverty free country be like if we could overcome the obstacles which impede progress?

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Book SynopsisWritten by leading scholars from various disciplines, this book presents current research on topics such as public choice, game theory, and political economy. It features contributions on fundamental, methodological, and empirical issues around the concepts of power and responsibility that strive to bridge the gap between different disciplinary approaches. The contributions fall into roughly four sub-disciplines: voting and voting power, public economics and politics, economics and philosophy, as well as labor economics.On the occasion of his 75th birthday, this book is written in honor of Manfred J. Holler, an economist by training and profession whose work as a guiding light has helped advance our understanding of the interdisciplinary connections of concepts of power and responsibility. He has written many articles and books on game theory, and worked extensively on questions of labor economics, politics, and philosophy. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Instead of an introduction - Manfred on his 75th Birthday (Heinz Kurz).- Part I. Economics and Philosophy.- Chapter 2. Three Types of Dramatic Irony (Timo Airaksinen).- Chapter 3. Defence is of Much More Importance than Opulence: Adam Smith on the Political Economy of War (Heinz Kurz).- Part II. Labor Economics.- Chapter 4. Relative Absence Concerns, Positional Consumption Preferences and Working Hours (Laszlo Goerke).- Chapter 5. Power, Responsibility and Social Policy: The Impact of Basic Income in a Competitive Experimental Labor Market (Veera Jokipalo).- Part III. Voting and Voting Power.- Chapter 6. Computing the Public Good index for weighted voting games with precoalitions using dynamic programming (Jochen Staudacher).- Chapter 7. The Art and Beauty of Voting Power (Sascha Kurz).- Chapter 8. An application of power indices for the family of weighted majority games in partition function form (José Alonso Meijide).- Chapter 9. Measuring Voting Power in Complex Shareholding Structures: a Public Good Index Approach (Izabella Stach).- Chapter 10. Voting on or About God (Mario Ferrero).- Chapter 11. Probabilistic study of voting rules: A tale of two volumes (Hannu Nurmi).- Chapter 12. The Liblice Castle Story (Dušan Tříska).- Chapter 13. Lexicographic Ranking based on Minimal Winning Coalitions (Michele Aleandri).- Chapter 14. The Public Good index for games with several levels of approval in the input and output (Sascha Kurz).- Part IV. Public Economics, Politics and Responsibility.- Chapter 15. Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor? (Ronald Wintrobe).- Chapter 16. Inflated expectations from democracy: Towards a systematic explanation (George Tridimas).- Chapter 17. Electoral competition, political promises and the “responsible party government” hypothesis (Benoît Le Maux).- Chapter 18. The effect of social interaction and cultural consumption on voting turnout (Marco F. Martorana).- Chapter 19. The Political Economy of Buchanan's Samaritan's dilemma (Alain Marciano).- Chapter 20. Felwine Sarr’s Afrotopia – An Utopian Vision Fruitful for Africa? (Rigmar Osterkamp).- Chapter 21. When Census is an Election: A Game-theoretic Analysis of Over-reporting of Headcount (Vikas Kumar)

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on what makes people happy. The author explains methods for measuring subjective life satisfaction and well-being by discussing economic and sociodemographic factors, as well as the psychological, cultural and political dimensions of personal happiness. Does higher income increase happiness? Are people in rich countries, such as the United States, the United Kingdom and Scandinavian countries, happier than those living elsewhere? Does losing one’s job make one unhappy? What is the role of genetic endowments inherited from our parents? How important are physical and emotional health to subjective life satisfaction? Do older people tend to be happier, or younger people? Are close social relationships necessary for happiness? Do political conditions, such as respect for human rights, democracy and autonomy, play a part? How can governments contribute to the population’s happiness? This book answers these questions on the basis of extensive interdisciplinary research reflecting the current state of knowledge. The book will appeal to anyone interested in learning more about the various dimensions of personal well-being beyond the happiness-prosperity connection, as well as to policymakers looking for guidance on how to improve happiness in societies.Trade Review“Frey’s book is a good piece of scholarly work and leads readers to think about new developments such as the transition to a digital economy, rarely studied topics such as war (including such sub-topics as combat flow and afterglow post-traumatic stress disorder), prison inmates, the use of happiness pills, and complicated decision-making processes (cognitive biases) and their possible effect on the happiness of individuals.” (Devrim Dumludag, Journal of Economics, Vol. 126, 2019)“The book is well structured; after having a short introduction about the concept of happiness, we are guided through all the major economic questions, namely how to measure happiness, the possible determinants of happiness, and the relation of happiness to governments, consumption, management, religion, war, television and the digital world in general.” (Adam Tamas Tuboly, Journal of Economic Methodology, Vol. 26 (2), 2019)

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Book SynopsisThis study examines, both conceptually and empirically, the welfare mix in the activity field of poverty relief and specific shifts of this mix, i.e. changes towards privatization and marketization. In the first part of the study, the meanings of the concepts ‘welfare mix’, ‘privatization’ and ‘marketization’ are disentangled and the concepts are connected. Based on this conceptual framework, the second part of the study assesses the welfare mix in poverty relief and recent changes thereof empirically. The empirical part focuses on Austria. There, mainly two types of organizational actors, namely public agencies and nonprofits, provide poverty alleviation. Thus, only the roles and contributions of these two types of providers are examined.Table of ContentsContents: Welfare mix in the activity field of poverty relief and specific shifts of this mix – Changes towards privatization and marketization – Focus on Austria and the roles and contributions of public agencies and nonprofits in the provision of poverty alleviation.

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Book SynopsisThe volume concentrates on «fiscal equalization» in theory, in Poland and in Germany. It starts with an overview on the normative concept of fiscal federalism, emphasizes special problems of fiscal equalization in transition countries, and describes in detail the legal framework and the financial flows of Poland’s fiscal equalization system. After a short overview on the «Länder» and the municipal fiscal equalization system in Germany, reforms proposals for the Polish fiscal equalization system are developed.Table of ContentsContents: Lars Ponterlitschek: The Theory of Fiscal Federalism – Lars Ponterlitschek: Fiscal Decentralization - Problems and Special Requirements for Transition Economies – Magdalena Godek/Radosław Witczak/Tomasz Uryszek: Deconcentration, Decentralization, Federalism: Terms and Definitions in the Polish Literature – Lars Ponterlitschek: Analysis and Evaluation of the Polish Fiscal System - The Task and Expenditure Side – Lars Ponterlitschek: Social Security System in Poland - Description and Analysis of the Current System – Radosław Witczak: Revenue Assignment in Poland – Tomasz Uryszek/Lars Ponterlitschek: Intergovernmental Transfers in Poland - Legal Framework – Marta Mackiewicz/Elżbieta Malinowska-Misiąg/Marcin Tomalak: The Self-Government Units in Poland Financial Data – Piotr Bury: Limitations on the Fiscal Policy of a Local Government – Andreas Kienemund: The Federal Financial Equalisation System in Germany – Wolfgang Scherf/Kai Hofmann: The Local Fiscal Constitution in Germany - An Overview – Stefan Schäfer/Ivo Bischoff: Unemployment Insurance and Micro-Level Labor Market Policy in a Federal State - Theoretical Considerations and the German Experience – Lars Ponterlitschek: Reform Proposals for the Polish Fiscal Equalization System Derived from the Theory of Fiscal Federalism – Tomasz Uryszek/Radosław Witczak: Proposals for the Improvement of the Polish Local Finance System – Wojciech Misiąg/Marcin Tomalak: Self-Government Finance Recommendations for Poland.

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