Welfare with or without growth? Potential lessons from the German healthcare system
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in: Sustainability, Jahrgang 8, Nr. 11, 1088, 25.10.2016, S. 1-14.
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T1 - Welfare with or without growth? Potential lessons from the German healthcare system
AU - Fischer, Matthias
PY - 2016/10/25
Y1 - 2016/10/25
N2 - This article is meant to be a contribution to the debate on growth and welfare. Its argument is based on results of a Grounded Theory study about the German healthcare system, which suggests that the core of the healthcare system can be expressed by two abstract basic ideas that are contradictory and yet dependent on each other. The implications of the results, both for future research on the healthcare system and for the debate on growth and welfare, are discussed. As a final suggestion, "sustainability" is proposed as a concept that could potentially resolve the debate..
AB - This article is meant to be a contribution to the debate on growth and welfare. Its argument is based on results of a Grounded Theory study about the German healthcare system, which suggests that the core of the healthcare system can be expressed by two abstract basic ideas that are contradictory and yet dependent on each other. The implications of the results, both for future research on the healthcare system and for the debate on growth and welfare, are discussed. As a final suggestion, "sustainability" is proposed as a concept that could potentially resolve the debate..
KW - Basic ideas
KW - German healthcare system
KW - Growth
KW - Welfare
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85000384397&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/su8111088
DO - 10.3390/su8111088
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:85000384397
VL - 8
SP - 1
EP - 14
JO - Sustainability
JF - Sustainability
SN - 2071-1050
IS - 11
M1 - 1088
ER -