Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 558 g
The Path to Economic Well-Being for All
Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 558 g
ISBN: 978-0-520-39014-0
Verlag: University of California Press
Examining why society should pool and spread the financial risk that individual families now bear.
Over the past sixty years, businesses and government have increasingly off-loaded financial risk onto US households. The toll has pushed tens of millions of people to the financial breaking point, worsened social inequity, and jeopardized US democracy. In Sharing Risk, consumer advocate and scholar Patricia A. McCoy draws on the nation’s traditions of risk sharing to argue that society should lift up families by pooling and spreading the financial risks that they now must bear alone.
Most policy discussions of financial stress on households look at the milestones of economic well-being in isolation: making ends meet, homeownership, quality health care, financing college, and a secure retirement. McCoy offers the first integrated examination of how risk sharing can enable families to realistically achieve all five goals without sacrificing one for another. She makes specific policy recommendations and shows how risk sharing, with its long and venerable history that includes Social Security and the Affordable Care Act, would provide economic well-being for all.
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- Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
- Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
