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European Capitalist Welfare Societies: The Challenge of Sustainability
Frericks, Patricia, Maier, Robert
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Description for European Capitalist Welfare Societies: The Challenge of Sustainability
Hardcover. This book analyzes European capitalist welfare societies, exploring questions of sustainability and the financing of social rights. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JKSB; KCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 134 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
This book offers an analysis of European capitalist welfare societies, centering on the questions of sustainability and the financing of social rights. Capitalism is defined as a multi-model economy, comprising of a market economy (including production, distribution and exchange), a state welfare economy (based on compulsory transfers, such as taxes and social contributions), a household economy and a voluntary economy. The resources for the welfare economy are produced by some activities of the life course, and used by other activities, once rights over these resources are acquired. Setting out a new conceptual framework that integrates an adapted version of the ... Read more
This book offers an analysis of European capitalist welfare societies, centering on the questions of sustainability and the financing of social rights. Capitalism is defined as a multi-model economy, comprising of a market economy (including production, distribution and exchange), a state welfare economy (based on compulsory transfers, such as taxes and social contributions), a household economy and a voluntary economy. The resources for the welfare economy are produced by some activities of the life course, and used by other activities, once rights over these resources are acquired. Setting out a new conceptual framework that integrates an adapted version of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
233
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230296909
SKU
V9780230296909
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Ref
99-15
About Frericks, Patricia, Maier, Robert
PATRICIA FRERICKS is Assistant Professor at Hamburg University, Germany. She has previously published Setting Rights: Resources Flows, Life-Course Norms and the Dynamics of Citizenship in European Pension Systems. ROBERT MAIER Professor at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. His previous publications include Citizenship and Identity, Sociogenesis Re-examined and Dialogues in and Around Multicultural Schools.
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