The Welfare State Revisited (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Columbia University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
Release date:	March 2018
First published:	2018
Editors:	Jose Antonio Ocampo • Joseph E. Stiglitz
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Trade binding
Pages:	408
ISBN-13:	978-0-231-18544-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > General Promotions
LSN:	0-231-18544-8
Barcode:	9780231185448

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