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Conservative welfare state systems in East Asia [[electronic resource] /] / Christian Aspalter
| Conservative welfare state systems in East Asia [[electronic resource] /] / Christian Aspalter |
| Autore | Aspalter Christian |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (125 p.) |
| Disciplina | 361.6/1/095 |
| Soggetto topico |
Public welfare - East Asia
Welfare state |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-313-07347-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910449811503321 |
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| Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2001 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Conservative welfare state systems in East Asia [[electronic resource] /] / Christian Aspalter
| Conservative welfare state systems in East Asia [[electronic resource] /] / Christian Aspalter |
| Autore | Aspalter Christian |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (125 p.) |
| Disciplina | 361.6/1/095 |
| Soggetto topico |
Public welfare - East Asia
Welfare state |
| ISBN | 0-313-07347-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777077803321 |
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| Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2001 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Conservative welfare state systems in East Asia / / Christian Aspalter
| Conservative welfare state systems in East Asia / / Christian Aspalter |
| Autore | Aspalter Christian |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (125 p.) |
| Disciplina | 361.6/1/095 |
| Soggetto topico |
Public welfare - East Asia
Welfare state |
| ISBN | 0-313-07347-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Intro -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 2 JAPAN -- CHAPTER 3 SOUTH KOREA -- CHAPTER 4 TAIWAN -- CHAPTER 5 SINGAPORE -- CHAPTER 6 HONG KONG -- CHAPTER 7 MAINLAND CHINA -- CHAPTER 8 THE FUTURE OF THE WELFARE STATE IN EAST ASIA -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- About the Author. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814530003321 |
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Aspalter Christian
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| Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2001 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Covid-19 pandemic : problems arising in health and social policy / / Christian Aspalter
| Covid-19 pandemic : problems arising in health and social policy / / Christian Aspalter |
| Autore | Aspalter Christian |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore : , : Springer, , [2023] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvi, 303 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Disciplina | 330.9 |
| Soggetto topico |
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- - Government policy
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- - Social aspects |
| ISBN | 981-9924-97-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introductory and Overarching Theory Part -- Introduction -- The Global Inequality Explosion Caused by the Covid-19 Pandemic -- Theme Chapters on Social Problems Raised by the Pandemic -- Socio-Economic and Geographic Inequality of Effects of the Pandemic -- Failure of Government Response to Ethnic Minorities: The Case of Australian Aboriginal Communities -- Aging and Long-Term Care Problems During the Pandemic -- Economic Problems Caused by the Pandemic—The Case of a Developing Country: India -- Comparing Social Policy Responses Between Separate Crises: Taking the Case of Indonesia -- Country Case Study Chapters on the Pandemic Itself (With an Additional Focal Point One Particular Social Problem) -- The Pandemic in the United Kingdom: With Special Reference to Rising Mental Health Problems -- The Pandemic in the United States: With Special Reference to Rising ‘Deaths of Despair’ -- The Pandemic in Australia: With Special Reference to Suicide in Aboriginal Communities -- The Pandemic in Mainland China: With Special Reference to Rising Relative Poverty -- The Pandemic in Taiwan: With Special Reference to Elderly People’s Problems -- The Pandemic in Thailand: With Special Reference to Informal Workers’ Problems -- The Pandemic in Brazil: With Special Reference to Unemployment -- The Pandemic in Spain: With Special Reference to Child Depriviation -- The Pandemic in Italy: With Special Reference to Women’s and Families’ Conditions -- The Pandemic in Greece: With Special Reference to Women’s Employment -- The Pandemic in Austria: With Special Reference to Migrant Care Workers’ Problems -- Concluding Part -- Conclusions. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910746091303321 |
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| Singapore : , : Springer, , [2023] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Human Entanglement Theory : A Quantum Approach to the Study of All-Encompassing Human Communication
| Human Entanglement Theory : A Quantum Approach to the Study of All-Encompassing Human Communication |
| Autore | Aspalter Christian |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore : , : Springer, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (182 pages) |
| ISBN |
9789819751617
9789819751600 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Prelude-The Warming Up: Getting Out There, Oneself Acquainted, Having a Thorough Look Around -- 1 When History Moves in Pendular Motion -- 2 Short-Time Preferences and Forces -- 3 Can We Escape Ourselves? -- 4 The Joy that Lasts Forever -- 5 Ploughing the Fields of Communications -- 6 The Pressures of Modern Life -- 7 The Big Unnamed and Unspoken -- 8 The Foucauldian Treadmills of Asia -- 9 The Fallacy of Fighting Injustice with Injustice -- 10 Crazy Mantras, Mantras that Make People Do Crazy Things -- 11 Death by Perfection -- 12 The Powers of the Administrator and Supervisor -- 13 One of the Worst Punishments by Life: Loneliness -- 14 Trodden Paths -- 15 Life Is a Minefield -- 16 Ruling Rules -- 17 Explaining 'Not Normal' to 'Normals' Turns Out to Be Sheer Impossible -- 18 The Non-textbook Love -- 19 Cats and Dogs -- 20 The Function of Beauty -- 21 True Science -- 22 The One -- 23 Exiled, and yet not Forgotten -- 24 Finding One -- 25 The Big Win-Win -- 26 Reason Misunderstood -- 27 Lifeways Going Sideways -- 28 Another Week -- 29 The Great Short -- 30 Working at the Little Ferry -- 31 Sweet Bitterness -- 32 The Fallacy of Wrong Names -- 33 About Wisdom -- 34 Yeah, Sure! -- 35 Why to Be? -- 36 Sharing Truths -- 37 Fear Is a Good Friend -- 38 Unwanted Politeness -- 39 The Reigns of Anger -- 40 A Waterway Apart and Different Worlds Forever -- 41 "Die gute Kinderstube" (A Good 'Childhood Home') -- 42 Do You Remember? -- 43 Everything and Nothing -- 44 A Blanket and a Pillow -- 45 Family -- 46 What Tomorrow Brings -- 47 Our Worlds Within -- 48 Everybody Makes Them -- 49 Deception of Want -- 50 On the Road Again -- 51 The Tyranny of Hierarchy -- 52 Replacing Oneself -- 53 Trading Real Security for Assumed Security -- 54 The Sirens of Power -- 55 The Different Language of Each Lifeworld.
2 Getting Down to Business: Ploughing the Fields of Empirical Reality -- 1 The Million Cries of a Baby and Child -- 2 Ways of Life, Ways of Common Sense -- 3 Fighting by Building Fences and Walls -- 4 Openness -- 5 It Exists, I Exist -- 6 Confidence and Growth -- 7 Motion -- 8 Modelling Truths -- 9 Hanging on -- 10 Streets of Chatter, Streets of Play -- 11 Wu Bai ("Five Hundred") -- 12 Pineapple Mountain: A Perfect Place -- 3 The Break Dance Begins: Finding the Path to Quantum Theory and Quantum Methodology -- 1 Communications -- 2 Esse Quando Non Esse [To Be When One Is not] -- 3 Non Esse Dum Esse [Not Being While Being] -- 4 Entering One World, then Another -- 5 Ideas and Speculations -- 6 We Think so Much that We Know so Many Things, and We Don't -- 7 Everything Is Connected to Everything -- 8 Data -- 9 Complexity -- 10 Perspectives -- 11 Diversity -- 12 Divisions -- 13 The Talk of Non-talk -- 14 The Talk of Non-policy -- 15 The Great Seduction of and Addiction to Forcing Others to Behave a Certain Way -- 16 Wishful Thinking -- 4 The Dawn of a New Human Quantum Theory and Quantum Methodology -- 1 The Conversationalist -- 2 Lots of Cigarettes, Lots of Sugar Drinks -- 3 Abseiling, Going Fishing -- 4 The Quantum Method -- 5 Voilà-A New Quantum Theory Is Born: The Theory of Human Entanglement -- 1 Super Entanglement -- 2 Stormy Winds and Stormy Seas -- 3 Ideas Give Birth to Wars -- 4 Collectivizing Guilt -- 5 Cataloguing and Recording -- 6 The Non-universality of Happiness -- 7 Bowls of Peanuts -- 8 Etiquette -- 9 Handlungswege (Action Pathways) -- 10 Fortuna -- 11 The Healing and Liberating Forces of Music -- 12 Deserts of Joy -- 13 The Silos of Fortune -- 14 Time Is but Memory -- 15 Empty Love -- 16 Scary Love -- 17 Rationalizing and Killing of Love -- 18 Container Competitions -- 19 Holding the Rail -- 20 Pear Candy -- 21 Holidays. 22 Towards a Theory of Human Entanglements: A Theory of Asymmetrical Human Inter-complexities -- 6 Bouncing to the Empirical, then Back to Quantum Theory Building -- 1 Neuro-linguistic Programming -- 2 The Knee -- 3 Only in One's Thoughts One Is Free, or not? -- 4 Why Did They Burn Down the Town Every 40 Years? -- 5 Plastic Straws and Plastic Gloves -- 6 The Power of Repetition -- 7 Crazy Ideas, Ingenious Ideas -- 8 With Time -- 7 Down to Earth Again-Staying in Touch with What Matters: The Empirical World -- 1 Urban Disneyland -- 2 Our Picture of the Neanderthals -- 3 The Broken Narrow Streets of Daibo -- 4 The Defiant Ones -- 5 The Anthropocene -- 6 Daily Routines -- 7 Bambini -- 8 The Story About Adam and Eve: In Essence a True Story -- 8 The Quantum Methodology Matures -- 1 From Archaeology and Genealogy to Quantumology -- 2 Diggers -- 3 Nudging -- 4 Birthdays -- 5 Horizons -- 6 Boredom -- 7 Human Greed and Folly -- 9 Analytical Reflections: Human Entanglement Theory Applies to All Aspects of Human Lives and Civilization -- 1 From Peruvian Roads to World Hunger -- 2 The Human Tragedy of Mass Incarcerations -- 3 Real-Time Thoughts -- 4 Who Remembers Yue Yue? -- 5 Krishna to Arjuna -- 6 Nietzsche to Goethe -- 7 Gendering Other People's Gender: The Gender Entanglement -- 8 The Might of the People -- 9 The Wonderful Nature of Literature -- 10 Why Religion? -- 11 Staircase to Heaven, Why? -- 12 Our Surrounding -- 13 Daily Necessities -- 14 Nature's Beauty -- 15 It Is Unethical to Look into People, It Is Dehumanizing -- 16 Be My Light, Light Me the Way -- 17 People Themselves Have to Decide Who They Want to Be -- 18 The Other Side -- 19 No Wood, Only Trees -- 20 Sumak Kawsay/Vivir Bien/Buen Vivir -- 21 Letting Ourself Become Abducted -- 22 Temptation -- 23 Insecurity -- 24 Hierarchies -- 10 Back to Quantum Methodology. 1 The Wonderful Prospects of Quantum-Inspired Methodology -- 2 Abduction, the Cornerstone of Scientific Knowledge Creation -- 3 On Universality of Infinite Vectors -- 4 On Universality in an Infinite Universe (of Observations/Events/Cases) -- 5 Communication: The Least Common Denominator -- 6 On Parallelity: Its Necessity and Advantages -- 7 Dialectic and Its Different Meanings -- 11 Back to Human Entanglement Theory -- 1 Entanglements and Their Vector Forces -- 2 A Theory of Human Communication and Human Action, and Its Implications for Personal Freedom -- 3 The Knowing and Calculating of What's to Come -- 4 Utopia, Dystopia -- 5 Improvements -- 6 The Entanglements of Social Problems -- 7 Diseases and Their Non-biological Causes -- 8 Activation and Prioritization -- 9 Catalysts and Prohibitors -- 10 Keys -- 11 Amplifiers and Dampeners -- 12 Turbulences and Warps -- 13 Noise -- 14 Pacifiers and Silencers -- 15 Disentanglement -- 16 From Social Systems to Human Entanglements: The Story -- 17 Entanglements: No beginning/No End and What It Means for Social Research and Social Theory Making -- 18 Knowledge Moves in Non-linear Motion -- 19 Randomness in Human Entanglement Theory -- 12 Back to Quantum Methodology (Again) -- 1 Randomness in Quantum Methodology -- 2 The Investigator's Need to Be Self-aware and Self-reflective -- 3 Empirical Theory Needs Empirical Input -- 4 Follow the Lead -- 5 Attention and Experience -- 6 Picking Up the Lead with an Open Eye and Open Mind -- 7 The Shepherd of Knowledge -- 8 Comparison as a Base for Theory Development -- 13 Keep Spinning the Wheel: Looking Again at the World Out There -- 1 In the Zone of Mindfulness -- 2 The Source for the Art of Everything: Inspiration -- 3 The Purple Gold -- 4 Pride -- 5 Prejudice -- 6 Running with no Goal -- 7 Nietzsche's Ladder of Life -- 8 Injustice -- 9 Revenge. 10 Sehnsucht ('Yearning') as an Addiction -- 11 Winter Is Coming -- 12 When Disaster Arrives -- 13 Bigotry Breeds Hate, Hate Breeds Bigotry -- 14 Selfishness and Jealousy -- 15 Compassion as Meaning in Life, and Source of Creativity -- 16 Seizing True Happiness However Much Possible and Warding off Everything Else -- 14 The Non-final Curtain: Conclusions Derived from Human Entanglement Theory -- 1 Our Mental Corset, Our Tainted Glasses and Our Luggage on Our Shoulders -- 2 Forgetting and Disregarding: The Open Secret to Useful Knowledge -- 3 We Need to Be Nurturing the Human Soul by Nurturing and Grooming Communication -- 4 Social and Economic Problems, Too, Are to Be Met with Strategies and Solutions that Focus on Communication -- 5 Language and Rational Thinking: The Greatest Inventions and the Greatest Sources of Problems -- 6 Everything in Communication, Everything Based on Communication Is Entangled in a Myriad of Ways -- 7 We Still Have a Long Way to Go to Fully Understand Human Action and Communication -- 8 Quantum Technology Will Soon Facilitate Predictions of Human Actions and the Consequences of Quantum Technology Itself -- 9 Quantum-Inspired Methodology and Its Revealed Prospects -- 10 The Sky Is Not the Limit-There Is No Limit -- 11 The Strong Cold Winds Ahead -- Epilogue -- Addenda -- Notes on Related Issues -- On Kuhn Versus Popper -- Human Entanglement Theory Fully Supports and Explains Thomas Kuhn's Theory of Normal Science -- Human Entanglement Theory and Social Policy Science -- Notes To Go -- References and Further Readings. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910878053903321 |
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Aspalter Christian
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| Singapore : , : Springer, , 2024 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Super inequality : theoretical essays in economics and social policy / / Christian Aspalter
| Super inequality : theoretical essays in economics and social policy / / Christian Aspalter |
| Autore | Aspalter Christian |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., , [2023] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 158 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Disciplina | 305 |
| Soggetto topico |
Equality
Income distribution Social policy |
| ISBN | 981-9951-69-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- References -- Contents -- 1 The Fascinating World of Human Action: An Introduction -- Humans Controlling Humans -- Elite Capitalism and Human Behavior -- Human Behavior in Economics and Social Policy Science -- Escaping Singularity and Dehumanizing Inequalities -- The Journey Has Begun -- Towards a General Theory of Human Action -- On Foucauldian War Chariots and Rothschildian Javelins -- Super Billionaires Having Fun While Millions of Children Die of Malnutrition Every Year -- About Tiny Wobbly Boats: By Way of Conclusion -- References -- 2 The General Theory of Distorted Choices -- Basic Foundations of Any General Behavioral Theory: Starting with the Concept of Rationality -- The Symbiotic Relationship Between the Science of Social Policy and Public Choice Theory -- Political Capitalism and the Political Economy of Expanding Government Activities (and Who Stand Behind All This) -- Developing a New Theory of 'Distorted' Choices for All Social Sciences: Particularly Social Policy and Economics -- Measuring Distorted Choices and Distorted Outcomes: The Case of Health Development -- Conclusion and Takeaway -- References -- 3 The General Theory of Z-Efficiency -- The Development of Z-Efficiency Theory (and Its Foundations) -- Z-Efficiency Theory and the Role It Plays in Investigating and Theorizing Human Action, Human Choices, and the Human Condition -- Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- 4 The General Theory of Super Inequality -- Building the Theory of Super Inequality -- On Rationality: Not an Answer, but a Source of Problems -- The Elite-Enabling Forces of Systemic Inequality and Systemic Povertization -- The End of 'Pure Market Theory' as a General Theory -- The Super-Super-Rich Fooling and Ruling All Others -- Where Is Research? And How Far Did It Come Along?.
Weathering the War of the Elites Against All Others -- The Concept and Theory of X-Inequality -- Conclusions -- References -- 5 On the Notions of Development and Evolution: A Concluding Note -- The Notion of Development -- The Concept of Development as a Weapon in Itself -- On Development and the Evolution of Humanity -- Overcoming the Chains and Shackles of Our Past -- Evolution Means Understanding Our Diversity and Working Together as One Humanity: By Way of Conclusion -- References -- Appendices -- Appendix 1A -- Appendix 1B -- Appendix 1C -- Appendix 1D -- Appendix 2 -- The Declaration of Independence from Financial and Economic Oppression and Welfare Dependency -- Poems to Go -- Wanderers Gemütsruhe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) -- Nietzsche to Goethe (an Adapted/changed Version). |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910746288903321 |
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Aspalter Christian
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| Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., , [2023] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ten worlds of welfare capitalism : a global data analysis / / Christian Aspalter
| Ten worlds of welfare capitalism : a global data analysis / / Christian Aspalter |
| Autore | Aspalter Christian |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2023.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore : , : Springer, , [2023] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (210 pages) |
| Disciplina | 361.61 |
| Soggetto topico |
Social policy
Welfare state Well-being |
| ISBN |
9789811978630
9789811978623 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Part 1. Introductory Part: Background and Rationale -- Chapter 1. Introduction: On the Particular Nature of Ideal Types Applied and Moving Science Forward a Bit at a Time -- Part 2. Theory Building: From Empirical Reality for Social Policy Practice -- Chapter 2. On the Methodology Applied -- Chapter 3. Ten Ideal-Typical Worlds and Their Individual Sets of Key Characteristics -- Chapter 4. Welfare Regimes and Their Povertization and Inequality Outcomes -- Chapter 5. Distinct Shades and Patterns of Dehumanization: Mapping Global Welfare Regimes -- Part 3. Normative/Concluding Part -- Chapter 6. Back to the Future: Income Polarization, Mass Povertization and Simple Ways Out of It -- Chapter 7. Decency for All: Universal Basic Income, Smart Universalism, Provident Funds, and Primarily Taxing the Super-Rich. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910647780803321 |
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Aspalter Christian
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| Singapore : , : Springer, , [2023] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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