Haagh, Louise Anne orcid.org/0000-0003-1187-067X (2021) Welfare-as-freedom, the human economy and varieties of capitalist state. In: Arestis, Philip and Sawyer, Malcolm, (eds.) Economic Policies for a Post-Neoliberal World. International Papers in Political Economy . Palgrave Macmillan
Abstract
This contribution advocates a political economy perspective on systems of well-being. I argue deeper regulatory features of human economy give rise to common institutions in areas such as education, work and care, and that the constraints this imposes on governance explains how a more egalitarian form of public sector development is a key factor in gender equality, control of core human activities, and forms of time. A systems approach to well-being critically engages freedom-focussed perspectives on welfare and the proposal for a Universal Basic Income (UBI), which has received public traction since 2016. Identifying the systemic foundations for wellbeing as control within core human activities and social relations suggests UBI should be seen as an important but insufficient element of systems of well-being. To depict patterns of continuity and change, this chapter compares a set of OECD cross-country data, with particular attention to hierarchical-competitive and developmental-horizontal Anglo-liberal and Nordic trajectories.
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Politics (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 12 Aug 2020 10:00 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 11:10 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Series Name: | International Papers in Political Economy |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:164304 |
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