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By Robert A. Moffitt (editor)

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9780226392493 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 11, 2016, cover price $110.00
9780226370477 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 11, 2016, cover price $110.00

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Product Description: When the Cold War ended, some people called it the “end of history.” Capitalism and liberal democracy had prevailed. Later, when the West clashed with radical Islam, Americans realized history hadn’t ended after all—at least not abroad...read more

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9781498509725 | Lexington Books, January 14, 2015, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: When the Cold War ended, some people called it the “end of history.

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Product Description: The United States has been epitomized as a land of opportunity, where hard work and skill can bring personal success and economic well-being. The American Dream has captured the imagination of people from all walks of life, and to many, it represents the heart and soul of the country...read more

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9780195377910 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 2014, cover price $29.95

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9780190467029 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 2016), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The United States has been epitomized as a land of opportunity, where hard work and skill can bring personal success and economic well-being.

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9781137005700 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 3, 2012, cover price $120.00

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9781137347886 | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, May 8, 2013), cover price $32.00

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Analyzes major principles, characteristics, and public policy issues concerning major social insurance programs such as Social Security and Medicare, workers compensation, unemployment insurance, and public assistance. This edition discusses proposals to privatize Social Security, welfare reform, and the financial problems of Medicare and OASDI. Designed for a one-semester undergraduate or graduate course in social insurance and income maintenance programs, and can also be used in industrial relations courses. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Hardcover:

9780765627483 | 7 edition (M E Sharpe Inc, December 1, 2011), cover price $210.00

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9780765627490 | 7 edition (M E Sharpe Inc, December 30, 2011), cover price $52.95
9780130204417 | 6 sub edition (Prentice Hall, January 1, 1999), cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Analyzes major principles, characteristics, and public policy issues concerning major social insurance programs such as Social Security and Medicare, workers compensation, unemployment insurance, and public assistance.

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Product Description: The collapse of the financial markets in 2008 and the resulting 'Great Recession' merely accelerated an already worrisome trend: the shift away from an employer-based social welfare system in the United States. Since the end of World War II, a substantial percentage of the costs of social provision--most notably, unemployment insurance and health insurance--has been borne by employers rather than the state...read more
By Ann O'Leary (editor)

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9780199781911, titled "Shared Responsibility, Shared Risk: Government, Markets, and Social Policy in the Twenty-First Century" | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 25, 2012, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: The collapse of the financial markets in 2008 and the resulting 'Great Recession' merely accelerated an already worrisome trend: the shift away from an employer-based social welfare system in the United States.

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9780199781928, titled "Shared Responsibility, Shared Risk: Government, Markets, and Social Policy in the Twenty-First Century" | Oxford Univ Pr, January 25, 2012, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: The collapse of the financial markets in 2008 and the resulting 'Great Recession' merely accelerated an already worrisome trend: the shift away from an employer-based social welfare system in the United States.

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Product Description: Peter Gosselin predicted in High Wire that the American worker would take on an exceedingly high level of risk in the American economy, and would be ever more exposed to the volatility of the market. Today, Gosselin's worst fears have been realized...read more

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9780465002252 | Basic Books, June 2, 2008, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The U.

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9780465013791 | Basic Books, June 8, 2009, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Peter Gosselin predicted in High Wire that the American worker would take on an exceedingly high level of risk in the American economy, and would be ever more exposed to the volatility of the market.

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Product Description: Everyday mathematical ideas are expressed differently in different languages. This book probes those differences and explores their implications for mathematics education, arguing for alternatives to how we teach and learn mathematics.

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9780387728582 | Springer Verlag, December 1, 2007, cover price $199.00 | About this edition: The book emerges from several contemporary concerns in mathematics, language, and mathematics education.
9780138343590, titled "Social Insurance and Economic Security" | 5th edition (Prentice Hall, October 1, 1993), cover price $92.70 | also contains Social Insurance and Economic Security

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9780387929378 | Springer Verlag, January 16, 2009, cover price $89.99 | About this edition: Everyday mathematical ideas are expressed differently in different languages.

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The unsettling new economic climate is laid bare in a study that shows how it came about, what it is doing to families, and how Americans can fight back to safeguard economic security and expand opportunity for all Americans. 75,000 first printing.

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9780195179507 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 9, 2006, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Analyzes the growing economic insecurity in the United States arising from the current trend to transfer economic risk from corporations and government onto American families, and offers ideas for reform.

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A call to collective action for American progressives argues against belief systems that promote small government with an inherent consequence of high personal risk, explaining the benefits of approaching public policy change from a collective standpoint that protects economic security and family living standards. Original.

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9781576753873 | Annotated edition (Berrett-Koehler Pub, April 7, 2006), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A call to collective action for American progressives argues against belief systems that promote small government with an inherent consequence of high personal risk, explaining the benefits of approaching public policy change from a collective standpoint that protects economic security and family living standards.

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By Alan J. Auerbach (editor), David E. Card (editor) and John M. Quigley (editor)

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9780871540461 | Russell Sage Foundation, January 31, 2006, cover price $45.00

By Anuradha Mittal (editor) and Peter Rosset (editor)

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9780935028720 | Food First Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $13.95

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Product Description: The changing economic conditions of the 1990s now demand a review of the framework and adaptation to conditions currently prevailing in the government's role in social welfare. Recognizing that the national political leadership no longer was willing to support all of the public programs and benefits that it had initiated in the past 50 years, the authors assume that a downsizing of the national government's role in social welfare will occur...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By John E. Hansan (editor) and Robert Morris (editor)

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9780865692664 | Praeger Pub Text, September 30, 1997, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: The changing economic conditions of the 1990s now demand a review of the framework and adaptation to conditions currently prevailing in the government's role in social welfare.

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Product Description: This study was motivated by an awareness of the ever-growing importance of technology on productivity and power in the information age. It examines the relationship among national security, economic competition, and technology. An underlying premise is that in an era of diminished military confrontation, economic and technological power are acquiring enhanced importance in national security considerations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780275952532 | Praeger Pub Text, March 1, 1996, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: This study was motivated by an awareness of the ever-growing importance of technology on productivity and power in the information age.

Product Description: Argues that the inevitable health care and social security reform to come will take place within a context of extreme budget constraint and intergenerational conflict. The text studies the political policies governing this debate in the US, comparing them to Canada's outlook.

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9780877666196 | Urban Inst Pr, August 1, 1994, cover price $80.50 | About this edition: Argues that the inevitable health care and social security reform to come will take place within a context of extreme budget constraint and intergenerational conflict.

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9780877666202 | Urban Inst Pr, August 1, 1994, cover price $39.00 | About this edition: Argues that the inevitable health care and social security reform to come will take place within a context of extreme budget constraint and intergenerational conflict.

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Product Description: Book by Fasnacht, Randall Craig

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9780963027894 | Life Force Inst, March 1, 1992, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Book by Fasnacht, Randall Craig

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Product Description: Book by Sweeney, John J., Nussbaum, Karen

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9780932020628 | Seven Locks Pr, May 1, 1989, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Book by Sweeney, John J.

Product Description: America in Transition Benefits for the Future an EBRI-EEF Policy Forum
By Ebri-Erf Policy Forum (contributor)

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9780866430494 | Employee Benefit Research Inst, April 1, 1987, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: America in Transition Benefits for the Future an EBRI-EEF Policy Forum

Product Description: Public- and private-sector programs providing benefits to unemployed workers differ in size, coverage, eligibility requirements, benefit levels, benefit duration and financing methods. They can be classified as: 1) Job termination programs, e...read more

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9780819155474 | Univ Pr of Amer, April 1, 1983, cover price $36.99 | About this edition: Public- and private-sector programs providing benefits to unemployed workers differ in size, coverage, eligibility requirements, benefit levels, benefit duration and financing methods.

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Product Description: The fifth edition of the classic volume on public and private social insurance and related programs now operating in the United States. Thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the 1981 reports of several national commissions and the views of the Reagan administration...read more

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9780471084099 | 5 sub edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, March 1, 1982), cover price $35.95 | About this edition: The fifth edition of the classic volume on public and private social insurance and related programs now operating in the United States.

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Hardcover:

9780911558838 | W E Upjohn Inst for, July 1, 1981, cover price $40.00

Paperback:

9780911558845 | W E Upjohn Inst for, July 1, 1981, cover price $10.00

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