Bücher von Michael Sherraden

Explores Individual Development Accounts to determine their effectiveness. This book offers lessons to those interested in saving and asset accumulation among the poor. It not only breaks new ground in the scientific study of savings behavior, but also offers recommendations to improve policies designed to encourage the poor to save.

Becker, H. S. Introduction to the second edition.--Becker, H. S. Introduction to the first edition: the struggle for power on the campus.--Gusfield, J. Beyond Berkeley.--Trimberger, E. K. Columbia: the dynamics of a student revolution.--McEvoy, J. and Miller, A. The crisis at San Francisco State.--Friedland, W. H. and Edwards, H. Confrontation at Cornell.--Simon, R. J. and Carey, J. The phantom racist.--Flacks, R. Young intelligentsia in revolt.--Schiff, L. F. Dynamic young fogies--rebels on the right.--Drew, D. E. Jewish students today: radical or conservative.--Becker, H. S. Ending campus drug incidents.--Szasz, T. The psychiatrist as double agent.--Hochschild, A. Student power in action.--Notes on contributors.

This work proposes a new approach to welfare: a social policy that goes beyond simple income maintenance to foster individual initiative and self-sufficiency. It argues for an asset-based policy that would create a system of saving incentives through individual development accounts (IDAs).