Steffen Mau

The Moral Economy of Welfare States (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates why people are willing to support an institutional arrangement that realises large-scale redistribution of wealth between social groups of society. Steffen Mau introduces the concept of 'the moral economy' to show that acceptance of welfare exchanges rests on moral assumptions and ideas of social justice people adhere to. Analysing both the institution of welfare and the public attitudes towards such schemes, the book demonstrates that people are neither selfish nor altruistic; rather they tend to reason reciprocally.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134370542
• Artikelnr.: 41836105

Autorenporträt

Junior professor in the Graduate School of Social Sciences (GSSS), University of Bremen, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Self-interest and pocket-book attitudes
Chapter 3 The admixture of motives
Chapter 4 An analytical framework
Chapter 5 The state of welfare
Chapter 6 The logic of popular support for welfare schemes and their objectives
Chapter 7 The moral economy revisited