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Handbook on the Political Economy of Health Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 475

Handbook on the Political Economy of Health Systems

This ground breaking Handbook brings together a number of chapters into one comprehensive book on the timely subject matter of the political economy of health and health care. The book contains up-to-date discussion on the state of the art of the key questions of the subject matter, and it provides a unique understanding of health policy making by drawing on an interdisciplinary approach to political economy.

The Political Economy of Health and Health Care
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 237

The Political Economy of Health and Health Care

Provides an international, unifying perspective, based on the 'public choice' tradition, to explain how patient-citizens interact with their country's political institutions to determine health policies and outcomes. This volume will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students studying health economics, health policy and public policy.

Frustrated Aspirations for Change
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Frustrated Aspirations for Change

Uncertainty about the future of the government and strong anti-political sentiment dominated Italian politics in 2007. Following a government crisis in February, rooted in the question of Italy’s role in Afghanistan, Prime Minister Romano Prodi was able to re-establish his coalition, but in the spring it suffered a clear setback in local elections amidst a climate of growing unpopularity. Initial chapters in this volume analyse these events as well as some important initiatives aimed, in different ways, at containing public disaffection towards the political class: the establishment of the Democratic Party, the electoral referendum campaign, and Silvio Berlusconi’s announcement of the bi...

Criminal Markets and Mafia Proceeds
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 179

Criminal Markets and Mafia Proceeds

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-03-22
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book estimates the proceeds of crime and mafia revenues for different criminal markets such as sexual exploitation, drugs, illicit cigarettes, loan sharking, extortion racketeering, counterfeiting, illicit firearms, illegal gambling and illicit waste management. It is the first time that scholars have adopted detailed methodologies to ensure the highest reliability and validity of the estimation. Overall, estimated proceeds of crime amount to € 22.8 billion: 1.5% of the Italian GDP. Of this, up to € 10.7 billion (0.7 of the GDP) may be attributable to the Italian mafias. These figures are considerably lower than the ones most frequently circulated on the news, without any details ab...

New Perspectives in Statistical Modeling and Data Analysis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 576

New Perspectives in Statistical Modeling and Data Analysis

This volume provides recent research results in data analysis, classification and multivariate statistics and highlights perspectives for new scientific developments within these areas. Particular attention is devoted to methodological issues in clustering, statistical modeling and data mining. The volume also contains significant contributions to a wide range of applications such as finance, marketing, and social sciences. The papers in this volume were first presented at the 7th Conference of the Classification and Data Analysis Group (ClaDAG) of the Italian Statistical Society, held at the University of Catania, Italy.

Understanding Health Systems and Welfare
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 155

Understanding Health Systems and Welfare

Understanding Health Systems and Welfare explores the ways in which we understand health care systems and recommends how individuals, health care providers and society as a whole can best use the resources within the systems for maximum benefit. In this enlightening book, Bent Greve examines health care systems from a multitude of perspectives, considering factors such as demographic changes, the steering of health care systems, the value of preventative measures and the challenges and opportunities presented by technological developments.

The Social Order of the Underworld
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 237

The Social Order of the Underworld

This book challenges the widely held view that inmates create prison gangs to promote racism and violence. On the contrary, gangs form to create order. Most people assume that violent inmates left to themselves will descend into a chaotic anarchy, but that's not necessarily the case. This book studies the hidden order of the prison underworld to understand how order arises among outlaws. It uses economics to explore the secret world of the convict culture, inmate hierarchy, and prison gang politics. Inmates engaged in illegal activity cannot rely entirely on state-based governance institutions, such as courts of law and the police, to create order. Correctional officers will not resolve a di...

The Lifework of a Labor Historian: Essays in Honor of Marcel van der Linden
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

The Lifework of a Labor Historian: Essays in Honor of Marcel van der Linden

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-10-16
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The Life Work of a Labor Historian: Essays in Honor of Marcel van der Linden (eds. Ulbe Bosma and Karin Hofmeester), presents the latest developments in the history of labor and capitalism. As part of Global Labor History, Jan Lucassen, Magaly Rodrígues García, Sidney Chalhoub, and Willem van Schendel discuss new concepts of work and workers, including sex workers, slaves in Brazil, and voluntary communal laborers in North-East India, while Andreas Eckert shows the relevance of area studies. Jürgen Kocka presents a history of capitalism and its critics to date, Pepijn Brandon analyzes Marx’s ideas on the link between free and coerced labor, and Jan Breman looks at the effects of capitalism on rural solidarity through the lens of Tocqueville.

Tax and Government in the 21st Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 433

Tax and Government in the 21st Century

  • Categories: Law

A broad, accessible, evidence-based analysis of tax law and how democratic tax states are confronting today's global digital challenges.

OECD Fiscal Federalism Studies Institutions of Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations Challenges Ahead
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

OECD Fiscal Federalism Studies Institutions of Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations Challenges Ahead

This book takes an interdisciplinary look at how the institutions of intergovernmental fiscal relations are shaped, drawing on work by both academics and practitioners in the field.