Introduction -- The state of poverty : TANF recipients -- The response to poverty and inequality : the welfare state -- Demonizing the single-mother family : the path to welfare reform -- The welfare bureaucracy -- Work and the low-wage labor market : mothers and children -- Welfare reform and...

An examination of how Botswana overcame the legacies of exceptional resource deficiency and colonial neglect, to transform itself from one of the poorest nations of the world to a middle income economy. Contributions review how economic, social and institutional policies interacted to produce...

Freedom to plan : on Kapp's institutional outlook / Michele Cangiani -- Political democracy and social costs : reading K.W. Kapp's "Political economy" today / Regine Heidenreich -- Social costs, social rights and the limits of free market capitalism : a re-reading of Kapp / Maurizio Franzini --...