San Antonio College Library

Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Rajan shows how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown--made by bankers, government officials, and ordinary homeowners--were rational responses to a flawed global financial order in which the incentives to take on risk are incredibly out of step with the dangers those risks pose. He traces the deepening fault...

Two hotel chains, each with one union and one non-union hotel in Seattle and Vancouver, provide a vivid crossnational comparison because they are similar in so many regards, the one major exception being government policy. Zuberi demonstrates how labor, health, social welfare, and public investment policy affect these hotel workers and their families. His book challenges the myth that globalization necessarily means hospitality jobs must be insecure...

Compares different ways in which governments have responded to similar pressures over recent years, and considers how welfare is likely to develop in the future. Provides up to date accounts of welfare states in the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Finland and Sweden.

Recently a growing chorus of complaint has been raised against globalization. It is widely blamed for destroying U.S. jobs and reducing American wages. The authors of this book speak directly to these concerns. They demonstrate with straightforward prose and simple illustrations why the globaphobes are wrong. Globalization has not reduced the availability of jobs. Nor has it reduced the average wage. It has played only a small part in the deteriorating...

One volume in a series of books on the status of American women, this work focuses on workforce issues such as unemployment, welfare, pensions, retirement, and the family.

Topics covered include wage subsidies and public employment, changes in modes of pay, employment regulations.