Western welfare capitalisms in good times and bad / Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels, John Quiggin

Bib ID:
10010479
Format:
Book
Author:
Headey, Bruce
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Description:
  • Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2023]
  • 1 online resource ( 224 p..) :
ISBN:
  • 1035312301 (electronic book)
  • 9781035312306 ((electronic bk.))
Invalid ISBN:
9781035312290 (hardcover)
Series:
Globalization and welfare.
Full contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Part I Welfare-capitalist regimes: policy priorities and policy outcomes
  • 1. What are governments for?
  • 2. Worlds of welfare capitalism
  • 3. International comparisons, international data
  • Part II Comparing policy performance
  • 4. The Global Financial Crisis: a crisis within the economic system
  • 5. Reducing poverty and income inequality
  • 6. Wealth inequality: the one that got away
  • 7. Reducing gender inequality
  • 8. Enhancing personal autonomy
  • 9. Promoting economic growth and rising living standards
  • 10. Promoting economic security and social stability
  • 11. Enhancing life satisfaction: a shared priority?
  • Part III A current crisis: coping with Covid
  • 12. Coping with Covid: public health responses
  • the trade-off that didn't exist
  • 13. Coping with Covid: fiscal, monetary, labour market, welfare and environmental policy responses
  • Part IV Western welfare capitalisms: convergence or continuity?
  • 14. Welfare-capitalist regimes in the 21st century: still delivering distinctive policy outcomes, little evidence of convergence
  • Appendix 1. Ireland: a welfare-capitalist regime that defies classification
  • Appendix 2. Western welfare publics support the welfare state
  • in principle
  • References
  • Index
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 05, 2023).
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