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The welfare state revisited / edited by José Antonio Ocampo and Joseph E. Stiglitz

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New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxiii, 384 pages) : illustrations
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Ocampo, José Antonio and Stiglitz, Joseph E.
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Contents
Preface -- The welfare state in the twenty-first century / Joseph E. Stiglitz -- Adapting labor and social protection systems to twenty-first-century capitalism / Sandra Polaski -- The welfare state in the twenty-first century : latest trends in social protection / Isabel Ortiz -- Supporting equal opportunities through laws and policies : global progress and persisting challenges / Jody Heymann and Aleta Sprague -- The sustainable development goals, domestic resource mobilization, and the poor / Nora Lustig -- Intra-household inequality and overall inequality / Ravi Kanbur -- Human capital, inequality, and growth / Torben M. Andersen -- The EU welfare state : past, present, and future / Elva Bova and Ernst Stetter -- Visible costs and hidden gains / Kalle Moene -- Social protection systems in Latin America : toward universalism and redistribution / José Antonio Ocampo and Natalie Gómez-Arteaga -- Social protection in Latin America : some challenges for reducing inequality / Ana Sojo -- Do competitive markets of individual savings accounts and health insurance work as part of the welfare state? / Andras Uthoff -- Innovations in protecting the old : mostly social insurance and some assets / Teresa Ghilarducci -- Universal basic income and the welfare state / Richard McGahey -- Employment guarantee in the age of precarity : the case of India's NREGA / Amit Basole and Arjun Jayadev -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary
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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9780231546164 (electronic bk.)
0231546165 (electronic bk.)
9780231185448 (cloth ; alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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