TY - BOOK ID - 33056536 TI - Welfare and Inequality in Marketizing East Asia PY - 2018 SN - 1137541059 1137541067 PB - London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Public welfare KW - Welfare state KW - Benevolent institutions KW - Poor relief KW - Public assistance KW - Public charities KW - Public relief KW - Public welfare reform KW - Relief (Aid) KW - Social welfare KW - Welfare (Public assistance) KW - Welfare reform KW - Human services KW - Social service KW - State, Welfare KW - Economic policy KW - Social policy KW - State, The KW - Welfare economics KW - Government policy KW - East Asia KW - Asia, East KW - Asia, Eastern KW - East (Far East) KW - Eastern Asia KW - Far East KW - Orient KW - Social policy. KW - Political economy. KW - Public policy. KW - International Political Economy. KW - Public Policy. KW - Economic theory KW - Political economy KW - Social sciences KW - Economic man UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33056536 AB - The world-scale expansion of markets and market relations ranks among the most transformative developments of our times. We can refer to this process by way of a generic if inelegant term – marketization. This book explores how processes of marketization have registered across East Asia’s diverse social landscape and its implications for patterns of welfare and inequality. While there has been great interest in East Asia’s economic rise, treatments of welfare and inequality in the region have been largely relegated to specialist literatures. Proceeding from a synthetic critique of political economy, this book places welfare and inequality at the center of a more encompassing comparative approach to political economy that construes countries as dynamic, globally embedded social orders defined and animated by distinctive social relational and institutional features. ER -