Péter Ákos Bod

Institutions of Economic Policy

A Comparative Analysis

Poverty, welfare, and the welfare state

Poverty is as old as mankind. What always changes are its locus, nature, and social acceptance. Rural poverty differs in its causes and consequences from urban poverty, especially from the highly visible metropolitan variety. Social attitudes evolve by time: a certain customary poverty had been seen as unavoidable and thus tolerable, being no business for the government. This was the general view before the age of urbanisation. Charities, churches, extended families, and local institutions took care of the needy. Now the situation is different: the state is expected to run institutions and formulate welfare policies.

Tartalomjegyzék

Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2020

ISBN: 978 963 059 970 2

Gazdaság

The reader is introduced to the purpose, structure, and organizational features of the most important institutions of market economy, such as the Treasury (Ministry of Finance), central (national) bank, bodies responsible for structural changes, supervision of competition, and regulators of strategic industries. The focus of the book is on open trade dependent states, with particular emphasis new member states of the European Union where the institutional order has been shaped by legacies of previous era as well as by policy transfer and policy advice through membership in EU, OECD, IMF and other international institutions. The bulk of the book deals with the comprehensive analysis of institutions of fiscal, monetary, competition, social, spatial policies, and with the emerging trends of new practices.

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