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  • SNAP Matters

    How Food Stamps Affect Health and Well-Being

    Edición de Judith Bartfeld, Craig Gundersen, Timothy Smeeding, James P. Ziliak ...
    Series series Studies in Social Inequality
    In 1963, President Kennedy proposed making permanent a small pilot project called the Food Stamp Program (FSP). By 2013, the program's fiftieth year, more than one in seven Americans received benefits at a cost of nearly $80 billion. Renamed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in 2008, it currently faces sharp political pressure, but the social science research necessary to guide ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Horizontal Equity, Uncertainty, and Economic Well-being

    Edición de Martin David, Timothy Smeeding ...
    Series Libro 50 - National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth
    The result of a National Bureau of Economic Research Income and Wealth conference held in December 1983, this volume looks at the concept of "economic well-being" and the ways that analysts have tried to measure it. In addition to income, economists have begun to consider such factors as pensions, wealth, health, and environment when measuring the well-being of a particular group. They have also ... Leer más

    $143.29 USD

  • Wealth and Welfare States

    Is America a Laggard or Leader?

    de Irwin Garfinkel, Lee Rainwater, Timothy Smeeding ...
    This book explores the role of the welfare state in the overall wealth and wellbeing of nations and in particular looks at the American welfare state in comparison with other developed nations in Europe and elsewhere. It is widely believed that the welfare state undermines productivity and economic growth, that the United States has an unusually small welfare state, and that it is, and always has ... Leer más

    $52.19 USD

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  • In Defense of Housing

    The Politics of Crisis

    de Peter Marcuse, David Madden ...
    In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it?Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Profit has become more important than social need. The poor are forced to pay more for worse housing. Communities are faced with the violence ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Making of Global Capitalism

    The Political Economy Of American Empire

    de Sam Gindin, Leo Panitch ...
    The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets. Globalization had appeared to be the natural outcome of this unstoppable process. But today, with global markets roiling and increasingly reliant on state intervention to stay afloat, it has become clear that markets and states aren’t ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Unequal Democracy

    The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age - Second Edition

    de Larry M. Bartels ...
    Series series Russell Sage Foundation Co-pub
    An acclaimed examination of how the American political system favors the wealthy—now fully revised and expandedThe first edition of Unequal Democracy was an instant classic, shattering illusions about American democracy and spurring scholarly and popular interest in the political causes and consequences of escalating economic inequality. This revised, updated, and expanded second edition includes ... Leer más

    $30.29 USD

  • City Limits

    de Paul E. Peterson ...
    This award-winning book "skillfully blends economic and political analysis" to assess the challenges of urban governments (Emmett H. Buell, Jr., American Political Science Review).Winner of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book published in the United States on government, politics, or international affairsMany simply presume that a city's politics are like a nation's politics, ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Progress for the Poor

    de Lane Kenworthy ...
    One of the principal goals of antipoverty efforts should be to improve the absolute living standards of the least well-off. This book aims to enhance our understanding of how to do that, drawing on the experiences of twenty affluent countries since the 1970s. The book addresses a set of questions at the heart of political economy and public policy: How much does economic growth help the poor? When ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Making Social Spending Work

    de Peter H. Lindert ...
    How does social spending relate to economic growth and which countries have got this right and wrong? Peter Lindert examines the experience of countries across the globe to reveal what has worked, what needs changing, and who the winners and losers are under different systems. He traces the development of public education, health care, pensions, and welfare provision, and addresses key questions ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Inequality in America

    Facts, Trends, and International Perspectives

    de Uri Dadush, Kemal Dervis, Sarah P. Milsom ...
    A bedrock American principle is the idea that all individuals should have the opportunity to succeed on the basis of their own effort, skill, and ingenuity.-Federal Reserve Chairman Ben BernankeIncome inequality has been on the rise since the late 1970s, but the economic and financial crisis of 2008 instigated an unemployment epidemic that dramatically compounded this problem in the United States ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Growing Public: Volume 1, The Story

    Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century

    de Peter H. Lindert ...
    Growing Public examines the question of whether social policies that redistribute income impose constraints on economic growth. Taxes and transfers have been debated for centuries, but only now can we get a clear view of the whole evolution of social spending. What kept prospering nations from using taxes for social programs until the end of the nineteenth century? Why did taxes and spending then ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • The Government-Citizen Disconnect

    de Suzanne Mettler ...
    Americans’ relationship to the federal government is paradoxical. Polls show that public opinion regarding the government has plummeted to all-time lows, with only one in five saying they trust the government or believe that it operates in their interest. Yet, at the same time, more Americans than ever benefit from some form of government social provision. Political scientist Suzanne Mettler calls ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD