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UNINA9910300493503321 |
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Autore |
London Jonathan D |
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Titolo |
Welfare and Inequality in Marketizing East Asia / / by Jonathan D. London |
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London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
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[1st ed. 2018.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XXVI, 435 p. 26 illus.) |
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Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy, , 2524-745X |
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International economic relations |
Political planning |
International Political Economy’ |
Public Policy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Part I -- Chapter 1. Great Transformations -- Chapter 2. Welfare, Inequality, and Marketization -- Chapter 3. Welfare, Growth, and Governance -- Chapter 4. Marketization, Protection, and Inclusive Growth: A New Synthesis -- Chapter 5. Rethinking Welfare Regimes -- Part II -- Chapter 6. Welfare, Inequality, and Varieties of Social Order -- Chapter 7. Developmental Welfare States?: Korea and Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore -- Chapter 8. Welfare, Clientelism, and Inequality -- Chapter 9. Welfare and Inequality in Market Leninism -- Chapter 10. 10. Afterword: Welfare and Inequality in Marketizing East Asia. . |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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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. |
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