When all else fails

government as the ultimate risk manager

ÍNDICE: 1. Introduction 2. A Primer on Risk and Its History 3. Limited Liability 4. Money 5. Bankruptcy 6. Workers' Insurance 7. Social Security 8. Product Liability Law 9. Security for All 10. The Foundations of American Risk Management Policy

Reforming pensions in Europe

evolution of pensions financing and resources of retirement income

Since the early 1990s the countries of the European Union and Central and Eastern Europe have been involved in the process of reforming their retirement income systems. The principal objective of these reforms is to contain the cost of pay-as-you-go public pension in the face ...

Public-private partnerships

policy and experience

Few current issues in public management are as controversial as public private partnerships (PPPs). The intensity of the debate reflects the importance of the concept to the government as it focuses on its central policy objective of improving public services, and the degree of opposition ...

Welfare state change

towards a Third Way?

Contents/contributors Part 1: Policy Contexts and Concepts 1 Rebecca Surender: Modern Challenges to the Welfare State and the Antecedents of the Third Way 2 Stuart White: Welfare Philosophy and the Third Way 3 Giuliano Bonoli and Martin Powell: One Third Way or Several? Part ...

Individual strategy and social structure

an evolutionary theory of institutions

Neoclassical economics as-sumes that people are highly rational and can reason their way through even the most complex economic problems. In Individual Strategy and Social Structure, Peyton Young argues for a more realistic view in which people have a limited understanding of their environment, are ...

El estado de bienestar en España

Este volumen analiza críticamente la situación del Estado del Bienestar en España, tanto globalmente como en sus distintos componentes tales como la Seguridad Social, el mercado laboral con énfasis en el análisis de la precariedad, la situación de la inmigración, la calidad y la financiación ...

Public private pertnerships

the worldwide revolution infrastructure provision and project finance

This path-breaking book considers the recent trend for governments to look increasingly to private sector finance, provided by private enterprises constructing and managing public infrastructure facilities in partnership with government bodies. One outstanding feature of the book is that it brings together an academic assessment ...

Public pension fund management

governance, accountability, and investment policies

Until recently, #public pension fund management# is an area that received little attention by policymakers, practitioners, and development agencies. Even though there is growing interest in the public pension fund reform both in emerging and developed countries, there are not many resources available in the ...

A handbook of comparative social policy

The current context of social policy is one in which many of the old certainties of the past have been eroded. The predominantly inward-looking, domestic preoccupation of social policy has made way for a more integrated, international and outward approach to analysis which looks beyond ...

La gestión tributaria

especiañ referencia a los procedimientos que la integran: análisis de la nueva Ley 58/2003, General Tributaria, en relación a la Ley 230/1963

En la presente obra se pretende una primera aproximación y exposición, de forma clara y breve, del contenido que en la Nueva Ley General Tributaria se da a los procedimientos específicos de comprobación por los órganos de gestión tributaria: verificación de datos, comprobación de valores ...

New risk, new welfare

the transformation of the European welfare state

This book, based on brand new data from a major study and long-standing collaboration between a number of prominent European scholars, provides a fresh perspective on the future of the welfare state across the EU. Through detailed case-study analysis, it analyses the emergence of new ...

Public Health, ethics, and equity

ÍNDICE: Amartya Sen: Preface Sudhir Anand and Fabienne Peter: Introduction I. Health Equity 1 Sudhir Anand: The Concern for Equity in Health 2 Amartya Sen: Why Health Equity? II. Health, Society, and Justice 3 Michael Marmot: Social Causes of Social Inequalities in Health 4 Norman ...

El control tributario

potestades, procedimientos y garantías

Este trabajo recoge múltiples aspectos en torno al hecho de la necesidad del Control por parte de las Administraciones Tributarias. Por un lado el propio control de los órganos encargados de la prevención del fraude, por otro el control del contribuyente a través de elementos ...

Le limitazione amministrative della spesa

Taxation, incomplete markets, and social security

the 2000 Munich lectures

Property rights, planning and markets

managing spontaneous cities

The economics of social policy

El poder presupuestario del Parlamento Europeo

«Quien controla el dinero se hace con el poder». Ésta ha sido la clave de la conducta del Parlamento Europeo desde que recibió en los años setenta el poder presupuestario de las Comunidades Europeas, al tiempo que éstas lograban la autonomía financiera respecto de los ...

Renegotiating the welfare state

flexible adjustment through corporatist concentration

Why have some countries have been more successful in welfare state reform than others? This book examines the experiences of various countries in reforming their welfare states through renegotiations between the state and peak associations of employers and employees. This corporatist concertation has been blamed ...

The economics of public spending