Super Inequality

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Theoretical Essays in Economics and Social Policy

Christian Aspalter

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Springer Verlag, Singapore
17 September 2023

Social welfare & social services; Regional government; Microeconomics; Behavioural economics; Civil service & public sector

This book bridges the disciplines of micro-economics and social policy in general, and, in particular, behavioral/explanatory social policy and public choice theory, plus Leibenstein’s X-efficiency theory. Being trained as an economist and social policy scientist, the author leaps out of the comfort zone of most social policy scientists and experts, right into the exciting world of micro-economic theory, and then extending and connecting those theories to explain major social, political and economic conundrums of our time.

In doing so, the book offers a new set of theoretical—and practical—explanations derived from the general proposition of micro-economic theory, of how government officers, policymakers, administrators and the people themselves alike are, by and large, motivated in their daily as well as strategic (long-term) decision-making. Using a meta-analytical approach (based on a number of grand theories), this book also explains systemic factors behind human behavior and the thereof resulting shortcomings in lifetime outcomes (health, wealth and happiness of a person) and at the same time societal, policy-making, and economic outcomes on societal level, and in global comparison.

The outcomes thereof can be measured exactly (and hence validated), especially through the method of empirical comparative social science/economic research. Here, the author also (but not only) introduces the new method of using Aspalter's Standardized Relative Performance (SRP) Index in measuring exactly complex, aggregate performances of multiple governments, and that at the same time also across the entire world.

By: Christian Aspalter
Imprint: Springer Verlag, Singapore
Country of Publication: Singapore
Edition: 2023 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm,
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9789819951680
ISBN 10: 9819951682
Pages: 158
Publication Date: 17 September 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christian Aspalter has published numerous key articles and over 25 books in Social Policy, including Health Policy. He is one of the leading theorists in social policy, and a leading comparative Health and Social Policy scholar. He is the author of Ten Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (Springer, 2023), plus the editor of Covid 19 Pandemic: Problems Arising in Health and Social Policy (Springer, 2023), Elgar Research Encyclopedia of Social Policy (forthcoming), The Routledge International Handbook to Welfare State Systems: Towards Global Social Policy Science, Financing Welfare State Systems in Asia, Ideal Types in Comparative Social Policy, as well as the co-editor of Health Care Systems in Developing Countries in Asia, Health Care Systems in Europe and Asia, plus Active Aging in Asia.