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Understanding industrial society : a sociological guide
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ISBN: 0333485394 0312120672 0333485386 9780312120672 Year: 1994 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): St. Martin's press,


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La civilisation tributaire de sa passion du bien-être
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ISBN: 2804012409 9782804012403 Year: 1997 Publisher: Bruxelles: Entre-vues & Labor,


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Gender and well-being in Europe: historical and contemporary perspectives
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ISBN: 1138259926 9781138259928 9780754672647 9780754688631 9781315584034 9781317130222 9781317130239 Year: 2009 Publisher: Farnham Ashgate

Democrazy and welfare economics
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ISBN: 0521430577 0521436370 0511559569 9780511559563 9780521430579 9780521436373 Year: 1993 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge university press,

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This is a fully revised and updated version of Hans van der Doel's Democracy and Welfare Economics. It presents the economic theory of political decision-making (otherwise knownn as new political economy, or public choice), providing students with an accessible and clear introduction to this important subject. The authors identify four different methods of decision-making by which the political process transforms the demands of individual citizens into government policy and public goods and services: negotiation, majority decision, representations and bureaucratic implementation. These are analysed, in turn, as independent decision-making models whose effectiveness is examined with reference to economic theory. A final chapter draws conclusions from this analysis, arguing that the size of the public sector is a result of forces that work in different directions at different stages of the political process.


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Du luxe au confort
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ISBN: 2701111838 9782701111834 Year: 1988 Publisher: Paris: Belin,

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The regulation of monopoly
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ISBN: 9780521368629 0521368626 0521363152 9780521363150 9780511572005 051157200X Year: 1989 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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Competition may not function well where technology calls for large and complex investments, as in the electrivity industry where public utilities often provide service. This book presents economic welfare foundations for the purpose of evaluating how well, from a social point of view, an enterprise performs when competition is unable to function. Problems with existing institutions are emphasized. Topics treated include welfare measures and their uses in peak-load pricing, second-best pricing, and income distribution. Professor Sherman covers public choice difficulties of government intervention, and describes problems with incentives in statutory monopolies and efforts to overcome them through the study of principal-agent relationships. Contestability and sustainable prices are also discussed, as well as effects of uncertainty and imperfect information.

L'invention du confort: naissance d'une forme sociale
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ISBN: 272970504X 9782729705046 2729710418 Year: 1994 Publisher: Lyon: Presses universitaires de Lyon,

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Le confort est à la mode. Hier encore secteur spécifique possédant son propre univers de référence, le confort est aujourd’hui à l’œuvre dans tout le social, en fonction d’enjeux et d’intérêts divers et complexes le constituant comme un phénomène social à part entière. Le confort n’est ainsi plus uniquement à comprendre comme une valeur emblématique de la modernité, autrement dit comme l’un de ses modes privilégiés de représentation et de légitimation, mais comme l’une de ses instances productrices de son sens. En définissant le confort comme une forme sociale, il est possible de rendre compte de la complexité du phénomène et de ses formes tout en affirmant la place et le rôle fondamentaux tenus par cette notion à l’heure actuelle au sein d’une société en pleine redéfinition, en quête de valeurs et de sens.

Anthropology of food : the social dynamics of food security
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ISBN: 0745615333 0745615341 9780745615349 Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge: Polity press,


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Tax justice : putting global inequality on the agenda
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ISBN: 9780745328621 9780745328614 074532861X 0745328628 1849644209 9781849644204 Year: 2009 Publisher: London : Pluto Press,

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Argues that global wealth inequalities need to be addressed to achieve lasting social and economic development in all countries.

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