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The British Growth Crisis: The Search for a New Model

Product Description: Britain remains mired in the most severe and prolonged economic crisis that it has faced since the 1930s. What would it take to find a new, more stable and more sustainable growth model for Britain in the years ahead? This important volume written by a number of influential commentators seeks to provide some answers...read more

By Peter Taylor-Gooby (editor)

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9781137441515 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 29, 2015, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Britain remains mired in the most severe and prolonged economic crisis that it has faced since the 1930s.

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9780380783489, titled "The Innkeeper's Daughter" | Flare, September 1, 1996, cover price $3.99 | also contains The Innkeeper''s Daughter | About this edition: Wishing she could join the fight for independence rather than settle for life as a frontier wife, fiery Byroney Rose Frazer overhears enemy plans and begins a desperate journey to save the family and the man she loves

Dependency Culture

Product Description: First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

By Peter Taylor-Gooby

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9780745012261 | Routledge, March 1, 1992, cover price $83.95 | About this edition: First published in 1992.

New Paradigms in Public Policy

Product Description: New Paradigms in Public Policy reviews some of the most challenging developments in British society as they are understood by policy-makers and by academics. The key point is that academic debates identify a range of ways in which issues can be understood and tackled, but policy is typically based on a narrow subset of possible approaches...read more

By Peter Taylor-Gooby (editor)

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9780197264935 | British Academy, September 15, 2013, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: New Paradigms in Public Policy reviews some of the most challenging developments in British society as they are understood by policy-makers and by academics.

The Double Crisis of the Welfare State and What We Can Do About It

Product Description: This book analyses the immediate challenges from headlong cuts, root-and-branch restructuring and the longer-term pressures from population ageing. It demonstrates that a more humane and generous welfare state that will build social inclusiveness is possible and shows how it can be achieved...read more

By Peter Taylor-Gooby

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9781137328106 | Palgrave Pivot, April 10, 2013, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: This book analyses the immediate challenges from headlong cuts, root-and-branch restructuring and the longer-term pressures from population ageing.

Reframing Social Citizenship

Product Description: Throughout the world, governments are restructuring social and welfare provision to give a stronger role to opportunity, aspiration and individual responsibility, and to competition, markets, and consumer choice. This approach centers on a logic of individual rational action: people are the best judges of what serves their own interests and government should give them as much freedom of choice as possible...read more

By Peter Taylor-Gooby

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9780199546701 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 15, 2009, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Throughout the world, governments are restructuring social and welfare provision to give a stronger role to opportunity, aspiration and individual responsibility, and to competition, markets, and consumer choice.

Political Philosophy and Social Welfare: Essays on the Normative Basis of Welfare Provisions

Product Description: First published in 1980. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

By Peter Taylor-Gooby

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9780415557436 | Routledge, September 9, 2009, cover price $155.00 | About this edition: This re-issued work, first published in 1980, represents a work of normative political philosophy which argues positively for the centrality of the obligation to meet the various demands of social need in our society, and will be of particular interest to students of politics, philosophy, social politics and administration.

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9780415557931 | Reissue edition (Routledge, July 15, 2010), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: First published in 1980.

Understanding and Promoting Access for People With Learning Difficulties

By Harry Lesser, Raymond Plant and Peter Taylor-Gooby

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9780203092262, titled "Understanding and Promoting Access for People With Learning Difficulties: Essays on the Normative Basis of Welfare Provisions" | Ebrary, July 1, 2009, cover price $125.00

Risk in Social Science

Product Description: This book is designed as an introduction to recent social science work on risk and is intended primarily for students in sociology, social psychology, and psychology, although it will also be useful for those studying political science, government, public policy, and economics...read more

By Peter Taylor-Gooby (editor) and Jens O. Zinn (editor)

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9780199285952 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 13, 2006, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: This book is designed as an introduction to recent social science work on risk and is intended primarily for students in sociology, social psychology, and psychology, although it will also be useful for those studying political science, government, public policy, and economics.

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9780199285969 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, November 30, 2006, cover price $56.00 | About this edition: This book is designed as an introduction to recent social science work on risk and is intended primarily for students in sociology, social psychology, and psychology, although it will also be useful for those studying political science, government, public policy, and economics.

Ideas And Welfare State Reform In Western Europe

Product Description: The new welfare settlement in Europe involves a re-direction of policy in the context of a unified market and currency system and of more stringent economic competition. Realignment of the policy assumptions and goals of the key actors is central to this process...read more

By Peter Taylor-Gooby (editor)

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9781403993175 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 21, 2005, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: The new welfare settlement in Europe involves a re-direction of policy in the context of a unified market and currency system and of more stringent economic competition.

New Risks, New Welfare: The Transformation Of The European Welfare State

Product Description: This book introduces the concept of new social risks in welfare state studies and explains their relevance to the comparative understanding of social policy in Europe. New social risks arise from shifts in the balance of work and family life as a direct result of the declining importance of the male breadwinner family, changes in the labor market, and the impact of globalization on national policy-making...read more

By Peter Taylor-Gooby (editor)

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9780199267262 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 13, 2005, cover price $190.00 | About this edition: This book introduces the concept of new social risks in welfare state studies and explains their relevance to the comparative understanding of social policy in Europe.

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9780199267279 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 13, 2005, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This book introduces the concept of new social risks in welfare state studies and explains their relevance to the comparative understanding of social policy in Europe.

Making a European Welfare State?: Convergences and Conflicts Over European Social Policy

Product Description: This volume provides an up-to-date account of developments in Europe across a range of policy fields, from labour markets to disability and poverty to health care. An up-to-date account of a rapidly changing field. Covers developments across a range of policy fields, from labour markets to disability and poverty to health care...read more

By Peter Taylor-Gooby (editor)

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9781405121163 | Blackwell Pub, July 23, 2004, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: This volume provides an up-to-date account of developments in Europe across a range of policy fields, from labour markets to disability and poverty to health care.

Welfare States Under Pressure

Product Description: Exerpt from the Financial Times Comment & Analysis: Europe takes on reform of the welfare state: A new study indicates that while the UK has transformed its social policies, the rest of Europe has been far from idle - `[A] stimulating new book on European welfare states [Welfare States under Pressure] suggests that the view of Britain as the only great welfare state reformer is overstated...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Peter Taylor-Gooby (editor)

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9780761971986 | Sage Pubns Ltd, February 5, 2002, cover price $157.00 | About this edition: Exerpt from the Financial Times Comment & Analysis: Europe takes on reform of the welfare state: A new study indicates that while the UK has transformed its social policies, the rest of Europe has been far from idle - `[A] stimulating new book on European welfare states [Welfare States under Pressure] suggests that the view of Britain as the only great welfare state reformer is overstated.

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9780761971993 | Sage Pubns Ltd, February 5, 2002, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Exerpt from the Financial Times Comment & Analysis: Europe takes on reform of the welfare state: A new study indicates that while the UK has transformed its social policies, the rest of Europe has been far from idle - `[A] stimulating new book on European welfare states [Welfare States under Pressure] suggests that the view of Britain as the only great welfare state reformer is overstated.

The End of the Welfare State?: Responses to State Retrenchment

Product Description: Throughout the world, politicians from all the main parties are cutting back on state welfare provision, encouraging people to use the private sector instead and developing increasingly stringent techniques for the surveillance of the poor...read more

By Stefan Svallfors (editor) and Peter Taylor-Gooby (editor)

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9780415207713 | Routledge, September 1, 1999, cover price $216.00 | About this edition: Throughout the world, politicians from all the main parties are cutting back on state welfare provision, encouraging people to use the private sector instead and developing increasingly stringent techniques for the surveillance of the poor.

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9780415463263 | 1 edition (Routledge, December 1, 2007), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Throughout the world, politicians from all the main parties are cutting back on state welfare provision, encouraging people to use the private sector instead and developing increasingly stringent techniques for the surveillance of the poor.

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9780203022955 | Routledge, January 4, 2002, cover price $41.95

Risk, Trust and Welfare

Product Description: This book uses findings from a major recent research program involving economists, psychologists, sociologists and public policy experts to show that economic self-interest and cultural and traditional factors interact in complex ways in people's responses to risk and uncertainty in everyday life, so that exclusive reliance on both rational actor theoretical approaches and consumerist policies is flawed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Peter Taylor-Gooby (editor)

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9780312232368 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 1, 2000, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: This book uses findings from a major recent research program involving economists, psychologists, sociologists and public policy experts to show that economic self-interest and cultural and traditional factors interact in complex ways in people's responses to risk and uncertainty in everyday life, so that exclusive reliance on both rational actor theoretical approaches and consumerist policies is flawed.

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9780333764930 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 23, 2000, cover price $59.99 | About this edition: This is a collection of theoretical discussion and empirical evidence on the way people think about, and cope with, the risks and uncertainties of late 1990s life.

European Welfare Futures: Towards a Theory of Retrenchment

Product Description: European Welfare Futures presents a clear and up-to-date analysis of developments in social policy in the main EU member states. It provides a systematic account of welfare retrenchment and assesses the competing explanations of this process...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Giuliano Bonoli, Victor George and Peter Taylor-Gooby

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9780745618104 | Polity Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $70.95 | About this edition: European Welfare Futures presents a clear and up-to-date analysis of developments in social policy in the main EU member states.

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9780745618111 | Polity Pr, May 25, 2000, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: European Welfare Futures presents a clear and up-to-date analysis of developments in social policy in the main EU member states.

Choice and Public Policy: The Limits to Welfare Markets

This text demonstrates that the traditional rational choice model of economic behaviour is unsatisfactory in providing accounts of the way people choose in relation to work, saving, spending, investment and social welfare. (view table of contents)

By Economic and Social Research Council (other contributor) and Peter Taylor-Gooby (editor)

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9780312212629 | Palgrave Macmillan, April 1, 1998, cover price $65.00

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9780333731314 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 1, 1998, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: This text demonstrates that the traditional rational choice model of economic behaviour is unsatisfactory in providing accounts of the way people choose in relation to work, saving, spending, investment and social welfare.

European Welfare Policy: Squaring the Welfare Circle

Product Description: This broad and accessible text examines one of the most crucial issues facing western governments today: how to raise sufficient funds to meet the rising aspirations of their electorate for more and better welfare services. Looking at seven European countries representing different policy traditions, government ideologies and levels of economic affluence, it discusses health, social security, housing, personal social services and education policies against a background of economic, demographic and familial change...read more

By Victor George (editor) and Peter Taylor-Gooby

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9780312157951 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 1, 1996, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: This broad and accessible text examines one of the most crucial issues facing western governments today: how to raise sufficient funds to meet the rising aspirations of their electorate for more and better welfare services.

Markets and Managers: New Issues in the Delivery of Welfare

Product Description: Over the past decade, the British welfare state has undergone the most fundamental reforms since World War II. Much discussion of current policy focuses on the global issues of cuts, privatization and the scope of the state sector...read more

By Robyn Lawson (editor) and Peter Taylor-Gooby

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9780335157907 | Open Univ Pr, July 1, 1993, cover price $97.00 | About this edition: Over the past decade, the British welfare state has undergone the most fundamental reforms since World War II.

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9780335157891 | Open Univ Pr, July 1, 1993, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Over the past decade, the British welfare state has undergone the most fundamental reforms since World War II.

Dependency Culture: The Explosion of a Myth

Product Description: First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

By Hartley Dean and Peter Taylor-Gooby

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9781138837287 | Routledge, November 10, 2014, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: First published in 1992.

9780312819354, titled "Tropical Soils: Classification, Fertility and Management" | Palgrave Macmillan, June 1, 1976, cover price $26.00 | also contains Tropical Soils: Classification, Fertility and Management

Social Change, Social Welfare and Social Science

Product Description: The first six chapters of this book are concerned to confront interpretations of evidence and new developments in social theory which support the claim that the time of state welfare is past. The rest of the book considers how arguments about human need and moral hazard may be used to establish a secure moral foundation for a citizenship right to welfare...read more

By Peter Taylor-Gooby

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9780802026804 | Univ of Toronto Pr, January 1, 1992, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The first six chapters of this book are concerned to confront interpretations of evidence and new developments in social theory which support the claim that the time of state welfare is past.

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9780802076960 | Univ of Toronto Pr, January 1, 1992, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The first six chapters of this book are concerned to confront interpretations of evidence and new developments in social theory which support the claim that the time of state welfare is past.

The Private Provision of Public Welfare: State, Market and Community

By Elim Papadakis and Peter Taylor-Gooby

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9780312009502 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 1, 1988, cover price $39.95 | also contains Patients With Sensory Impairments

Public Opinion, Ideology, and State Welfare

By Peter Taylor-Gooby

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Paperback:

9780710099686 | Routledge Kegan & Paul, June 1, 1985, cover price $26.00

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