Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice
Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice

Author: Radhika Balakrishnan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-31

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1317572114

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The dominant approach to economic policy has so far failed to adequately address the pressing challenges the world faces today: extreme poverty, widespread joblessness and precarious employment, burgeoning inequality, and large-scale environmental threats. This message was brought home forcibly by the 2008 global economic crisis. Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice shows how human rights have the potential to transform economic thinking and policy-making with far-reaching consequences for social justice. The authors make the case for a new normative and analytical framework, based on a broader range of objectives which have the potential to increase the substantive freedoms and choices people enjoy in the course of their lives and not on not upon narrow goals such as the growth of gross domestic product. The book covers a range of issues including inequality, fiscal and monetary policy, international development assistance, financial markets, globalization, and economic instability. This new approach allows for a complex interaction between individual rights, collective rights and collective action, as well as encompassing a legal framework which offers formal mechanisms through which unjust policy can be protested. This highly original and accessible book will be essential reading for human rights advocates, economists, policy-makers and those working on questions of social justice.

Social Justice and Gender Equality
Social Justice and Gender Equality

Author: G©ơnseli Berik

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 041595651X

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Using country case studies from Latin America and Asia, this edited volume explores the effects of various development strategies and associated macroeconomic policies on women's well-being and progress towards gender equality.

Social Justice and Gender Equality
Social Justice and Gender Equality

Author: Günseli Berik

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-10-12

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1135911134

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The contributors to this edited volume explore the effects of various development strategies and associated macroeconomic policies on women’s well-being and progress towards gender equality. Detailed analyses of major UN reports on gender reveal the different approaches to assessing absolute and relative progress for women and the need to take into account the specifics of policy regimes when making such assessments. The book argues that neoliberal policies, especially the liberalization of trade and investment, make it difficult to close gender wage and earnings gaps, and new gender sensitive policies need to be devised. These and other issues are all examined in more detail in several gendered development histories of countries from Latin America and Asia.

Work and Social Justice
Work and Social Justice

Author: Flora Gill

Publisher:

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781447369967

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This volume examines the urgent workplace challenges we're facing today with an interdisciplinary and historical analysis that challenges and broadens the scope of existing economic literature.

Rethinking Development Economics
Rethinking Development Economics

Author: Ha-Joon Chang

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13: 1843311100

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This title represents the most forward thinking and comprehensive review of development economics currently available.

Social Justice and Public Policy
Social Justice and Public Policy

Author: Anthony Barnes Atkinson

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9780262010672

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This volume collects the core of A. B. Atkinson's contributions to the study of inequality and mobility, wealth and redistribution, taxation, and public policy issues.

Rethinking Social Policy
Rethinking Social Policy

Author: Gail Lewis

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2000-03-28

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1412932742

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Rethinking Social Policy is a comprehensive introduction to, and analysis of, the complex mixture of problems and possibilities within the study of social policy. Contributors at the cutting edge of social policy analysis reflect upon the implications of new social and theoretical movements for welfare and the study of social policy. Topics covered include: criminology and crime control; race, class and gender; poverty and sexuality; the body and the emotions; violence; work and welfare in Europe. Examples are drawn from a variety of welfare sectors such as: social services and community care, health, education, employment, and criminal justice. This is a course reader for The Open University course (D860) Rethinking Social Practice.

Combating Inequality
Combating Inequality

Author: Olivier Blanchard

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2021-02-02

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0262362678

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Leading economists and policymakers consider what economic tools are most effective in reversing the rise in inequality. Economic inequality is the defining issue of our time. In the United States, the wealth share of the top 1% has risen from 25% in the late 1970s to around 40% today. The percentage of children earning more than their parents has fallen from 90% in the 1940s to around 50% today. In Combating Inequality, leading economists, many of them current or former policymakers, bring good news: we have the tools to reverse the rise in inequality. In their discussions, they consider which of these tools are the most effective at doing so.

Rethinking Social Justice
Rethinking Social Justice

Author: Karthick Ram Manoharan S Anandhi

Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Limited

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789352879076

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The discourse of social justice has been much contested in India ever since the time of the Mandal Commission report. Nearly four decades on, debates on culture and identity remain strong. Rather than studying the concept of social justice in isolation, in distinct social, political or economic terms, Rethinking Social Justice offers a more transdisciplinary approach to envisioning a just society that encompasses the intersecting issues of caste, capital, nationalism, gender, region, urban planning and visual representation. Divided into five broad thematic sections Politics of Culture and Identity; Critical Social History; Nation and the Region; Political Economy; and Cinema and Society this volume brings together perspectives from across disciplines to rethink the question of social justice, in the process opening up a view of the panorama of Indian politics. This collection is an homage to M. S. S. Pandian who, through his writings on political economy, Dravidian politics, film studies, and social and intellectual history, interrogated questions of caste, identity and cultural elitism in his broader quest for social justice. In this volume, eminent scholars friends and colleagues of Pandian enter into a dialogue with Pandian s life-work, cut short by his untimely demise in 2014. They build upon his legacy to not only critically evaluate politics and society, but also subject mainstream culture to an equally critical evaluation. Social scientists, activists, journalists, policymakers and film critics will find immense value in this insightful collection of essays.