Social Issues - Print on Demand

Zusatztext 'This volume provides a sound framework for discussing and resolving certain pressing social issues...' Klappentext Social Issues is a text for courses on social issues and policies. Given recent cuts in government budgets, issues such as taxation, welfare, health care, social security, and environmental protection are drawing increasing attention to the basic problems of how to divide resources equitably among all members of society. By combining perspectives from ethics, politics and economics, Social Issues delineates a `social ethics' which can be combined with basic economic theory to analyse and address these public policy problems. Zusammenfassung Social Issues is a text for courses on social issues and policies. Given recent cuts in government budgets, issues such as taxation, welfare, health care, social security, and environmental protection are drawing increasing attention to the basic problems of how to divide resources equitably among all members of society. By combining perspectives from ethics, politics and economics, Social Issues delineates a `social ethics' which can be combined with basic economic theory to analyse and address these public policy problems.

Product details

• Authors: John C. Winfrey, John Crawford Winfrey
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.1997
• EAN: 9780195114331
• ISBN: 978-0-19-511433-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 235 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Public Finance, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Social welfare & social services, Social issues & processes, Social and ethical issues, Central / national / federal government policies, Public finance, Central government policies, Public finance and taxation, Social welfare, social policy and social services