Social welfare / monograph

"Social Welfare" offers, for the first time, a wide-ranging, internationally-focused selection of cutting-edge work from leading academics. Its interdisciplinary approach and comparative perspective promote examination of the most pressing social welfare issues of the day. The book aims to clarify some of the ambiguity around the term, discuss the pros and cons of privatization, present a range of social welfare paradoxes and innovations, and establish a clear set of economic frameworks with which to understand the conditions under which the change in social welfare can be obtained 00 preface_ Social Welfare......Page 1 01 a Part 1_ Social Welfare Idealization and Privatization......Page 15 01 Contemporary Civil Society Theory Versus Hegel’s Understanding of Civil Society......Page 17 02 Privatization and Financial Markets in European Union: A Social Welfare Perspective......Page 39 03 a Part 2_ Social Welfare Paradoxes and Innovations......Page 75 03 Paradoxes of Welfare: Universality, Truth, and Power in Modern Welfare Provision......Page 77 04 Area-Based Partnerships and Social Welfare: Innovations and Challenges......Page 103 05 Look to Norway – A Sobering Challenge to a Success Story......Page 131 06 Autonomy and Poverty – An Empirical Study of Long-Term Recipients of Social Assistance......Page 151 07 a Part 3_ Social Welfare Competition and Negotiation......Page 167 07 Can Competition Save Your Life?......Page 169 08 Welfare Effects of Third-Degree Price Discrimination: Ippolito Meets Schmalensee and Varian......Page 177 09 Mediated Heuristic Approaches and Alternative Social Welfare Definitions for Complex Contract Negotiations Involving Highly Uncorrelated Utility Spaces......Page 191 10 Social Welfare and the Emergence of Negotiations......Page 217