Twenty-one international scholars and researchers contribute to this volume examining ways in which value-judgments enter into any analysis of social security reform. Thirteen chapters are grouped into three sections ethical concepts and principles, ethics and attitudes, and ethics and the evaluation of concrete institutions and offer perspectives from a number of different countries. A sampling of topics includes migration and social security, the measurement of absolute poverty, attitudes towards private unemployment insurance in Britain and Germany, and the transition from a state-controlled to a market-based social security system. Academic but accessible to the general reader interested in social security reform. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
