Welfare State Revisited (eBook)

Jose Antonio Ocampo, Joseph E. Stiglitz (Herausgeber)

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2018
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-54616-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The welfare state has been under attack for decades, but now more than ever we need strong social programs to combat inequality, support social justice, and even improve economic performance. This book brings together distinguished contributors to examine global variations of social programs and make the case for a redesigned welfare state.

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The welfare state has been under attack for decades, but now more than ever there is a need for strong social protection systems-the best tools we have to combat inequality, support social justice, and even improve economic performance. In this book, Jose Antonio Ocampo and Joseph E. Stiglitz bring together distinguished contributors to examine the global variations of social programs and make the case for a redesigned twenty-first-century welfare state.The Welfare State Revisited takes on major debates about social well-being, considering the merits of universal versus targeted policies; responses to market failures; integrating welfare and economic development; and how welfare states around the world have changed since the neoliberal turn. Contributors offer prescriptions for how to respond to the demands generated by demographic changes, the changing role of the family, new features of labor markets, the challenges of aging societies, and technological change. They consider how strengthening or weakening social protection programs affects inequality, suggesting ways to facilitate the spread of effective welfare states throughout the world, especially in developing countries. Presenting new insights into the functions the welfare state can fulfill and how to design a more efficient and more equitable system, The Welfare State Revisited is essential reading on the most discussed issues in social welfare today.

Autor

José Antonio Ocampo is codirector of Banco de la Republica (Colombia’s central bank), professor in the School of International and Public Affairs (on leave for public service), and copresident of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University. He formerly held a number of positions with the United Nations and the government of Colombia. His books with Columbia University Press are Growth and Policy in Developing Countries: A Structuralist Approach (2009, coauthor), Development Cooperation in Times of Crisis (2012, coedited with José Antonio Alonso), and Too Little, Too Late: The Quest to Resolve Sovereign Debt Crises (2016, also coedited with Joseph E. Stiglitz).Joseph E. Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University and a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He is also copresident of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University, chief economist of the Roosevelt Institute, and the cochair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress at the OECD. His Columbia University Press books include Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress (2014).

Inhalt

AcronymsPrefacePart I1. The Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century, by Joseph E. Stiglitz2. Adapting Labor and Social Protection Systems to Twenty-First-Century Capitalism, by Sandra Polaski3. The Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century: Latest Trends in Social Protection, by Isabel Ortiz4. Supporting Equal Opportunities Through Laws and Policies: Global Progress and Persisting Challenges, by Jody Heymann and Aleta Sprague5. The Sustainable Development Goals, Domestic Resource Mobilization, and the Poor, by Nora Lustig6. Intra-Household Inequality and Overall Inequality, by Ravi Kanbur7. Human Capital, Inequality, and Growth, by Torben M. AndersenPart II8. The EU Welfare State: Past, Present, and Future, by Elva Bova and Ernst Stetter9. Visible Costs and Hidden Gains, by Kalle Moene10. Social Protection Systems in Latin America: Toward Universalism and Redistribution, by José Antonio Ocampo and Natalie Gómez-Arteaga11. Social Protection in Latin America: Some Challenges for Reducing Inequality, by Ana Sojo12. Do Competitive Markets of Individual Savings Accounts and Health Insurance Work as Part of the Welfare State?, by Andras Uthoff13. Innovations in Protecting the Old: Mostly Social Insurance and Some Assets, by Teresa Ghilarducci14. Universal Basic Income and the Welfare State, by Richard McGahey15. Employment Guarantee in the Age of Precarity: The Case of India’s NREGA, by Amit Basole and Arjun JayadevContributorsIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.3.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
• Zusatzinfo: 65 b&w illustrations
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• ISBN-10: 0-231-54616-5 / 0231546165
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-54616-4 / 9780231546164