Living Standards and Social Well-Being (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Figart, Deborah; Marangos, John

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Too many of the world's citizens face impoverished living standards. The economic and financial crises have made matters worse. The viewpoint of Living Standards and Social Well-Being is that the fundamental objective for an economy is provisioning, not simply efficiency. The chapters in this volume examine how economies across the globe come to understand what constitutes a living and how they can improve living standards, including balancing paid work with family life and civic responsibility.

The authors provide historical, theoretical, and empirical studies of moving economies at the macro level and households at the micro level toward improved living standards. It is argued that achieving well-being and decent living standards, through work and welfare state policies, is a social responsibility. Such improvements could be delivered through basic income policies, family support, job guarantees, decent work, shorter work weeks, and support from social welfare. These issues are important for economics and the other social sciences and in particular for social economics.

This book was published as a special issue of the Review of Social Economy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317983323
• Artikelnr.: 57101567

Autorenporträt

Deborah M. Figart is Professor of Education and Economics at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, USA. She is a former President of the Association for Social Economics and a widely published scholar on issues related to work and pay. She co-authored Living Wages, Equal Wages (2002). John Marangos is Associate Professor of Political Economy at the University of Crete, Greece. He is Editor of the Forum for Social Economics, a journal sponsored by the Association for Social Economics, and section editor for the Global Business and Economics Review. Focal points for John's research include transition economies, international development, and innovative methodologies for teaching economics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction to Living Standards and Social Well-Being Deborah M. Figart
and John Marangos 2. Consumption, Work Hours, and Values in the Writings of
John A. Ryan: Is it Possible to Return to the Road Not Taken? Martha A.
Starr 3. Overtime Work and Well-Being at Home Lonnie Golden and Barbara
Wiens-Tuers 4. Family Friendly Policies: Helping Mothers Make Ends Meet
Heather Boushey 5. Basic Income and Productivity in Cognitive Capitalism
Stefano Lucarelli and Andrea Fumagalli 6. Living Wage and Optimal
Inequality in a Sarkarian Framework Mark Friedman 7. The European Union
Enlargement and Well-Being: A Comparative Approach Nikos Astroulakis and
John Marangos 8. A Cross-Regional Analysis of Living Standards, with a
Focus on Asia Hyun H. Son 9. Social Responsibility for Living Standards:
Presidential Address, Association for Social Economics Deborah M. Figart