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Wages for Caring examines policies and programs of compensation for family caregivers of the disabled elderly from a broad analytical perspective, weighing current policies of home care services against principles of access, equity, quality, and funding of long-term care.

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In this collection of essays, social and economic historians consider the rise of capitalism in the early American republic and demonstrate the centrality of common men and women as artisans, laborers, planters, and farmers in the dramatic transitions of the period.

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A study of the impact of spiralling wage demands in a cotton factory in Ghent during the 19th century and the efforts of management to reduce the cost through investment in new technology and stricter employment policies. The workers' responses to wage cutting is also considered.

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Aims to debunk the myth that Britain was a free-trade nation during and after the industrial revolution, by revealing how the British used tariffs as a mercantilist tool to politically weaken France. This book shows that Britain did not transform smoothly from a mercantilist state in the 18th century to a bastion of free trade in the late 19th.

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Economics is imbued with individualistic values that result in an economy marked by extreme inequality that in turn restricts social mobility and further marginalizes the poor. Catholic social thought provides the moral values required to help make economics capable of building an economy that serves all, rich and poor alike.

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Water Capitalism proposes the privatization of all bodies of water, because those who own resources husband their assets far more carefully than do bureaucrats who have no real stake in the environment. The idea that an all-powerful state should, or could, care for the physical liquid environs of the world is shown to be incorrect and immoral.

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Water Capitalism proposes the privatization of all bodies of water, because those who own resources husband their assets far more carefully than do bureaucrats who have no real stake in the environment. The idea that an all-powerful state should, or could, care for the physical liquid environs of the world is shown to be incorrect and immoral.

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Increasing world demands for water call for new institutions and rules to minimize economic and political conflicts. Practitioners, students, and scholars will find this work a valuable resource in water policy, environmental policy, resource economics, and civil engineering.

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Water struggles as resistance to neoliberal capitalism is an important intervention into social reproduction theory and eco-socialist debates. It provides a timely analysis of the role of expropriation in the current global water crisis and makes a persuasive argument for understanding class as an emergent process constituted through struggle.

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Explains the U.S. growth slowdown as a natural consequence of economic maturity.

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There exist eight reliable ways to increase poverty and the United States is now pursuing seven of them, according to Lebergott. His provocative examination of income and wealth in this country reveals the impossibility of ending poverty permanently without changing American capitalism beyond recognition. Originally published in 1976. The Princet

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European monetary unification has produced a $15 trillion windfall to its member nations that is rarely accounted for in analyses of economic integration. This work argues that the reduction in cross-border risks is responsible for an explosion in the value of fixed income assets and share prices.

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In July 1997, the promise of the Asian economic miracle and the Pacific century devolved into economic chaos and the onset of what has become known as the Asian financial crisis.

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James Latimore considers the problem of good results or good reports in the context of his study of one small agency's transition from financial independence to government funding dependence. Latimore's study shows that the strengths of philanthropic intervention may be negated by the bureaucratic accountability that accompanies public funding.

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Introduces those with relatively little mathematical training and only an intermediate economic theory course to the important economic issues of collective choice and public welfare.

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Documents how outsourcing has penetrated every part of the public sector, and balances critique with practical suggestions for policy reform -- .

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Documents how outsourcing has penetrated every part of the public sector, and balances critique with practical suggestions for policy reform -- .

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The book shows that earlier studies exaggerated the effects of rural land scarcity, foreign capital inflows, and population growth on Third World urbanization. More critical were imbalances of productivity advance across sectors and terms of trade between primary products and manufactures. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Librar

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