Social Welfare

Edited by Rosario Laratta, ISBN 978-953-51-0208-3, 230 pages, Publisher: InTech, Chapters published March 07, 2012 under CC BY 3.0 license
DOI: 10.5772/2274
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"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.

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• Chapter 1  Contemporary Civil Society Theory Versus Hegel’s Understanding of Civil Societyby Rosario Laratta
• Chapter 2  Privatization and Financial Markets in European Union: A Social Welfare Perspectiveby Ioannis N. Kallianiotis
• Chapter 3  Paradoxes of Welfare: Universality, Truth, and Power in Modern Welfare Provisionby Kaspar Villadsen
• Chapter 4  Area-Based Partnerships and Social Welfare: Innovations and Challengesby Brendan O’Keeffe
• Chapter 5  Look to Norway – A Sobering Challenge to a Success Storyby Dag Leonardsen
• Chapter 6  Autonomy and Poverty – An Empirical Study of Long-Term Recipients of Social Assistanceby Kjell Underlid
• Chapter 7  Can Competition Save Your Life?by Helen Schneider
• Chapter 8  Welfare Effects of Third-Degree Price Discrimination: Ippolito Meets Schmalensee and Varianby Iñaki Aguirre
• Chapter 9  Mediated Heuristic Approaches and Alternative Social Welfare Definitions for Complex Contract Negotiations Involving Highly Uncorrelated Utility Spacesby Ivan Marsa-Maestre, Miguel A. Lopez-Carmona, Enrique de la Hoz and Mark Klein
• Chapter 10  Social Welfare and the Emergence of Negotiationsby Francisco Candel-Sánchez