Risk, Trust and Welfare (Paperback)

This book contains new theoretical discussion and new empirical evidence on the way people think about and cope with the risks and uncertainties of modern life. The national surveys cover areas ranging from lone parenthood to medicine, from house purchase to long-term care, from personal finance to the welfare state. People's confidence in their capacity to cope with uncertainty is closely related to social class, gender and access to support networks. Policies that assume that people are self-interested rational actors are likely to produce unsatisfactory results and to damage the essential social capital of trust.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2000
First published:	2000
Editors:	Peter Taylor-Gooby
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-0-333-76493-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > Business & Economics > Finance & accounting > Finance > Public finance > General Books > Money & Finance > Public finance > General
LSN:	0-333-76493-5
Barcode:	9780333764930

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