Alternative Voices in Contemporary Economics – serie
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Welfare, Inequality, and Resource Depletion
A Reassessment of Brazilian Economic Growth
Inbunden, 2003
2513 kr
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This book breaks new ground by accounting for the welfare implications of both severe inequality and environmental degradation and developing a sustainable development indicator that incorporates changes over time in each of these dimensions. The model is applied to data from Brazil spanning the …
Economics of Prevailing Wage Laws
Av Peter Philips, Hamid Azari-Rad
Inbunden, 2005
2312 kr
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Prevailing wage laws affecting the construction industry in the United States exist at the Federal and State levels. These laws require that construction workers employed by contractors on government works be paid at least the wage rates and fringe benefits 'prevailing' for similar work where …
Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee
Av Karl Widerquist, Michael Anthony Lewis
Inbunden, 2005
2513 kr
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Governments in the US, the UK and other nations around the world routinely consider and, in some cases, experiment with reforms of their income support systems. The basic income guarantee, a universal unconditional income grant, has received increasing attention from scholars as an alternative to …
Britain, the Euro and Beyond
Av Mark Baimbridge, Philip B. Whyman
Inbunden, 2008
1568 kr
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This important book provides an analysis of the economic relationship between Britain and the EU and discusses the future direction in which this relationship might develop. It examines the historic and contemporary costs and benefits of EU membership, and assesses whether this has been a burden or …
On the Role of Paradigms in Finance
Inbunden, 2008
2588 kr
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Social theory can usefully be conceived in terms of four key paradigms: functionalist, interpretive, radical humanist and radical structuralist. The four paradigms are founded upon different assumptions about the nature of society and each generates distinctive theories, concepts and analytical …
Future of the Welfare State
European and Global Perspectives
Av Bent Greve
Inbunden, 2006
2513 kr
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A common belief is that the European welfare states are in a position of crisis or heading towards one with the process of globalization removing any hopes of eventual worldwide welfare. This book challenges this assumption arguing that a proper understanding of the future role of the welfare state …
Marxist Perspectives on South Korea in the Global Economy
Av Martin Hart-Landsberg, Seongjin Jeong m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
2588 kr
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This volume brings together work by international scholars to provide a unique analysis of the past, present and possible future trajectory of Korea's political economy from a distinctly Marxist perspective. The volume differentiates the Marxian approach to the political economy of Korean …
Future of the Welfare State
European and Global Perspectives
Av Bent Greve
Häftad, 2024
633 kr
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A common belief is that the European welfare states are in a position of crisis or heading towards one with the process of globalization removing any hopes of eventual worldwide welfare. This book challenges this assumption arguing that a proper understanding of the future role of the welfare state …
Marxist Perspectives on South Korea in the Global Economy
Av Martin Hart-Landsberg, Seongjin Jeong m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
877 kr
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This volume brings together work by international scholars to provide a unique analysis of the past, present and possible future trajectory of Korea's political economy from a distinctly Marxist perspective. The volume differentiates the Marxian approach to the political economy of Korean …
Economics of Prevailing Wage Laws
Av Peter Philips, Hamid Azari-Rad
Häftad, 2016
784 kr
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Prevailing wage laws affecting the construction industry in the United States exist at the Federal and State levels. These laws require that construction workers employed by contractors on government works be paid at least the wage rates and fringe benefits 'prevailing' for similar work where …
Welfare, Inequality, and Resource Depletion
A Reassessment of Brazilian Economic Growth
Häftad, 2016
877 kr
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This book breaks new ground by accounting for the welfare implications of both severe inequality and environmental degradation and developing a sustainable development indicator that incorporates changes over time in each of these dimensions. The model is applied to data from Brazil spanning the …
