Timely Cash: Lessons From 2,500 Years of Giving People Money
Autor Ugo Gentilinien Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 dec 2024
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780198888116
ISBN-10: 0198888112
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: 20 figures
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.71 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0198888112
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: 20 figures
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.71 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Recenzii
This detailed and engaging account of cash transfer programs over time and space invites the reader to reflect on timeless questions about poverty and whether its causes and solutions lie with individuals or society.
This global history of cash transfers is a tour de force; a brilliant, carefully researched and well-written must-read for anyone advocating or questioning cash transfers across the globe. It shows how cash transfers are more than money: they reflect the debates, struggles and challenges across politics and societies throughout history, and as they are mirrored today. This book is more than about cash transfers: it is also a book about insights and worldviews about poverty and the human condition, in the past and today.
This inspiring book is an essential reference to policymakers, professionals and academia. It is an intellectual piece that transcends history and reflects on the ancient and contemporary social protection from an interdisciplinary perspective. It also challenges the concept of rights and duties between the citizen and the government from a humanitarian, though rational and socio-economic approach to provision of social welfare. This piece of art would not come except from a dedicated human, scholar and professional person like Ugo Gentilini.
A fascinating read that traces cash transfers throughout histories, ancient empires, modern nation-building, economic transformations, and the COVID-19 global pandemic… As Ugo Gentilini has meticulously researched and convincingly argued, the history of cash transfer is the history of human progress, and the sacrifice and societal turbulence entailed. Buried in this history is a road map to address not all, but some of the poverty generators found in market-oriented systems.
This book is truly a tour de force, taking us on a journey across many countries and way back in time to understand the foundations of transfer programs today. It offers real insights into our current policy debates - it is genuinely a must read for anyone interested in how to alleviate poverty and improve social protection for all.
This extraordinary book's long run historical perspective provides a rich vein of insights, deftly integrated by the author into the results of detailed modern quantitative research on the last half century of cash transfer programs. What we get is a masterful account of the origins and evolution of cash transfers, and the identification of core factors which have been constant despite the variations of time and place. Through it all, the author explodes and exposes myths, and draws lessons which will be helpful to policy analysts and policy makers everywhere.
A masterful exploration… Gentilini' s work stands out for its depth and breadth. Timely Cash is an essential read, a crucial resource for understanding the past, present, and future of cash transfers as a cornerstone of social protection and economic policy.
The Bible tells us that there is nothing new under the sun and, in this book, Gentilini tells us that the same is true about cash transfers. Read it, and you will find out that many of our current debates are not current at all, and you will learn a lot of useful facts and discussions from this 2,500-year history. A wonderful book that will widen your horizons.
This book is among the most awe-inspiring and well-researched pieces of scholarship that I've read in years. It opened my eyes to how sophisticated government social programs have been over many centuries and world regions -- from ancient Rome and China to early modern Spain -- and how much we can learn from looking back into the past to design effective public programs today.
Timely Cash offers an insightful journey through the history of cash transfers. The book highlights the evolution of social policies and welfare systems over time and reveals that the arguments used in debating the usefulness of cash transfers often are not new. Ugo Gentilini's work allows scholars and policymakers to evaluate the long-term effects of these interventions, and to derive valuable lessons for the development of contemporary social protection programs that are responsive to current societal needs.
This fascinating book contains a lot of new and exciting material on the comparative history of cash transfers. Redistribution has a long history, and there's much to learn from it regarding the strength and weaknesses of cash transfers and the need for in-kind transfers and public goods. A must-read!
A fascinating breath of fresh air on thinking around social protection that effortlessly crosses boundaries and connects framing, contexts, motivations and actions. Ugo Gentilini's masterly exploration of a subject bearing relevance to past, present and future alike will be a treat whether the reader is an expert, a layman, a policymaker or a political actor. Timely Cash avoids the well-known pitfalls of being narrowly prescriptive on a policy choice engaging mind in both the global south and the global north.
Ugo Gentilini provides a magisterial account of debates over social protection, demonstrating emphatically that contemporary debates have histories dating back not just decades or centuries but even millennia, not just in North-West Europe but globally. This book will change the way we think about social protection.
A fascinating tour of the history of the use of cash transfers across the centuries - providing rich lessons which are highly relevant to this day. Recommended reading for everyone interested in the social, political and economic impacts of cash transfers - and their transformative potential in addressing poverty and exclusion.
Ugo Gentilini's book is a demonstration model of the enormous value for public policy practitioners of a thorough understanding of relevant research by historians. This clearly-written book is a must-read for policy professionals; and also for historians to inspire them to communicate their important work more widely.
Cash transfers have existed for 2500 years and are now present all over the world. No book has ever provided such a comprehensive overview of past and present cash transfer schemes, not so many insights into the economic, ideological and political causes of their rise, demise and stunning variety.
Money matters to those who have it but more to those who don't. Ugo Gentilini' s mind-changing book demonstrates that societies across the world have been grappling with the human and policy implications of this truism for millennia. Progress has proved to be neither inevitable nor uniform such that insights from the distant past can have relevance today. One such insight is that society benefits from us sharing our money with those that have less.
This global history of cash transfers is a tour de force; a brilliant, carefully researched and well-written must-read for anyone advocating or questioning cash transfers across the globe. It shows how cash transfers are more than money: they reflect the debates, struggles and challenges across politics and societies throughout history, and as they are mirrored today. This book is more than about cash transfers: it is also a book about insights and worldviews about poverty and the human condition, in the past and today.
This inspiring book is an essential reference to policymakers, professionals and academia. It is an intellectual piece that transcends history and reflects on the ancient and contemporary social protection from an interdisciplinary perspective. It also challenges the concept of rights and duties between the citizen and the government from a humanitarian, though rational and socio-economic approach to provision of social welfare. This piece of art would not come except from a dedicated human, scholar and professional person like Ugo Gentilini.
A fascinating read that traces cash transfers throughout histories, ancient empires, modern nation-building, economic transformations, and the COVID-19 global pandemic… As Ugo Gentilini has meticulously researched and convincingly argued, the history of cash transfer is the history of human progress, and the sacrifice and societal turbulence entailed. Buried in this history is a road map to address not all, but some of the poverty generators found in market-oriented systems.
This book is truly a tour de force, taking us on a journey across many countries and way back in time to understand the foundations of transfer programs today. It offers real insights into our current policy debates - it is genuinely a must read for anyone interested in how to alleviate poverty and improve social protection for all.
This extraordinary book's long run historical perspective provides a rich vein of insights, deftly integrated by the author into the results of detailed modern quantitative research on the last half century of cash transfer programs. What we get is a masterful account of the origins and evolution of cash transfers, and the identification of core factors which have been constant despite the variations of time and place. Through it all, the author explodes and exposes myths, and draws lessons which will be helpful to policy analysts and policy makers everywhere.
A masterful exploration… Gentilini' s work stands out for its depth and breadth. Timely Cash is an essential read, a crucial resource for understanding the past, present, and future of cash transfers as a cornerstone of social protection and economic policy.
The Bible tells us that there is nothing new under the sun and, in this book, Gentilini tells us that the same is true about cash transfers. Read it, and you will find out that many of our current debates are not current at all, and you will learn a lot of useful facts and discussions from this 2,500-year history. A wonderful book that will widen your horizons.
This book is among the most awe-inspiring and well-researched pieces of scholarship that I've read in years. It opened my eyes to how sophisticated government social programs have been over many centuries and world regions -- from ancient Rome and China to early modern Spain -- and how much we can learn from looking back into the past to design effective public programs today.
Timely Cash offers an insightful journey through the history of cash transfers. The book highlights the evolution of social policies and welfare systems over time and reveals that the arguments used in debating the usefulness of cash transfers often are not new. Ugo Gentilini's work allows scholars and policymakers to evaluate the long-term effects of these interventions, and to derive valuable lessons for the development of contemporary social protection programs that are responsive to current societal needs.
This fascinating book contains a lot of new and exciting material on the comparative history of cash transfers. Redistribution has a long history, and there's much to learn from it regarding the strength and weaknesses of cash transfers and the need for in-kind transfers and public goods. A must-read!
A fascinating breath of fresh air on thinking around social protection that effortlessly crosses boundaries and connects framing, contexts, motivations and actions. Ugo Gentilini's masterly exploration of a subject bearing relevance to past, present and future alike will be a treat whether the reader is an expert, a layman, a policymaker or a political actor. Timely Cash avoids the well-known pitfalls of being narrowly prescriptive on a policy choice engaging mind in both the global south and the global north.
Ugo Gentilini provides a magisterial account of debates over social protection, demonstrating emphatically that contemporary debates have histories dating back not just decades or centuries but even millennia, not just in North-West Europe but globally. This book will change the way we think about social protection.
A fascinating tour of the history of the use of cash transfers across the centuries - providing rich lessons which are highly relevant to this day. Recommended reading for everyone interested in the social, political and economic impacts of cash transfers - and their transformative potential in addressing poverty and exclusion.
Ugo Gentilini's book is a demonstration model of the enormous value for public policy practitioners of a thorough understanding of relevant research by historians. This clearly-written book is a must-read for policy professionals; and also for historians to inspire them to communicate their important work more widely.
Cash transfers have existed for 2500 years and are now present all over the world. No book has ever provided such a comprehensive overview of past and present cash transfer schemes, not so many insights into the economic, ideological and political causes of their rise, demise and stunning variety.
Money matters to those who have it but more to those who don't. Ugo Gentilini' s mind-changing book demonstrates that societies across the world have been grappling with the human and policy implications of this truism for millennia. Progress has proved to be neither inevitable nor uniform such that insights from the distant past can have relevance today. One such insight is that society benefits from us sharing our money with those that have less.
Notă biografică
Ugo Gentilini is Lead Economist at the World Bank. With over two decades of professional experience in social protection research and practice, Gentilini has published extensively on various issues related to social assistance. His work includes Cash Transfers in Pandemic Times (World Bank, 2022), Exploring Universal Basic Income, with Margaret Grosh, Jamele Rigolini, and Ruslan Yemtsov (World Bank, 2020), and The 1.5 Billion People Question, with Harold Alderman and Ruslan Yemtsov (World Bank, 2017).