"This is a book about the demand for redistribution of income through taxes and transfers. It is also a book about how our main intuition about what affects individual preferences for redistribution (whether a person is rich or poor) needs to be complemented with the consideration of other...

This book contributes to the growing social policy literature on social investment by discussing the way social investment ideas have been adopted in different countries and in various academic and professional fields, including social policy, development studies and non-profit management....

Gerhard A. Ritters Standardwerk über Entstehung und Entwicklung des Sozialstaats seit der Frühen Neuzeit ist so aktuell wie nie. Die öffentlichen Debatten über Sozialtransfers, Gesundheitskosten und die angemessene Höhe von Hartz-IV-Leistungen schlagen hohe Wellen - nicht nur in...