BWB Texts.
Get up-to-speed with some of the biggest challenges facing New Zealand with this bundle of high-profile BWB Texts by Paul Dalziel & Caroline Saunders, Shamubeel Eaqub, Max Rashbrooke, and leading New Zealand economists and commentators.
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| Language: | English |
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Wellington :
Bridget Williams Books,
2014
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Wellbeing Economics; Preface; 1 Wellbeing Economics; Wellbeing Economics; The Capabilities Approach of Amartya Sen; Time-Use Choices and Market Production; Value-Added Activities and the Structure of the Book; 2 Leading Lives We Have Reason to Value; The Time Use Survey; Housing and Wellbeing; Childcare and Wellbeing; Cultural Capital; 3 Living Well in Communities; Community Organisations and Wellbeing; Social Capital and Wellbeing; Local Government and Wellbeing; Natural Capital and Wellbeing; Co-production of Local Government Services; 4 Value through Enterprise and Skills.
- Market Production and WellbeingPhysical Capital and Wellbeing; Market Employment and Wellbeing; Labour Market Skills and Wellbeing; Human Capital and Wellbeing; 5 Public Service to Expand Capabilities; Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Wellbeing; Taxation and Wellbeing; Market Regulation and Wellbeing; Equity and Wellbeing ; Infrastructure and Wellbeing; The Public Service and Wellbeing; 6 Future Directions for New Zealand; A Wellbeing Example; Value-Added Activities; Skills and Education; The Living Standards Framework and Better Public Services; From Welfare State to Wellbeing State.
- 4 Voting with Their FeetLeaving, Ageing and Arriving; Reversal of Decline Is Possible; 5 Call to Action; Hard Questions; No Easy Solutions; Agree on the Problem and the Goal; Gather Evidence; Develop a Strategy; Collaboration; Review and Refine; Growing Together; Notes and Further Reading; Acknowledgements; About the Author; The Inequality Debate; Introduction; 1 Why Inequality Matters; DEFINING INEQUALITY; UNEQUAL IMPACTS; BUT WHY DO LOW INCOMES MATTER?; WHY INEQUALITY
- WHY NOT JUST POVERTY?; WHAT ABOUT SOCIAL MOBILITY?; RIGHTFUL REWARD?; CAN'T ECONOMIC GROWTH SOLVE THIS?
- WHY INEQUALITY MATTERSDysfunction: how do unequal societies fail?; Division: how does inequality break down social cohesion?; Stagnation: how does inequality weaken growth?; 2 Inequality and New Zealand; WHO EARNS WHAT?; WHO OWNS WHAT?; MORE UNEQUAL THAN MOST; WHAT WE DON'T MEASURE; NEW ZEALAND EQUALITY
- TRUTH AND MYTH; A TURNING TIDE; THE GREAT DIVERGENCE; GOING NOWHERE; THE STRUGGLING MIDDLE; UP, UP AND AWAY; ACCEPTING THE GREAT DIVIDE?; THE CHALLENGE NOW; Glossary; Acknowledgements; About the Author; The Piketty Phenomenon; Introduction; About the Authors.
