Welfare economics

This book develops an understanding of workplace justice and labour rights in Vietnam from factory workers' voices and their resistance against abuse and exploitation.

This book highlights the importance of economic knowledge in government decision-making.

How immigrants and their descendants fare in the host society and in particular in the labor market is a very important question.

Why we are poor and others are so very rich, indeed, why they are so rich when we are still very poor.

Over the past quarter-century China has seen a dramatic increase in income inequality, prompting a shift in China's development strategy and the adoption of an array of new policies to redistribute income, promote shared growth, and establish a social safety net.

The book provides fresh look at the issues of sustainable development, degradation of natural resources and vulnerability to climate change in Small Island developing states (SIDS).

A state-of-the-art assessment of welfare provision, policy and reform at national and at EU level which spans the whole of Europe - East, West and Central.

Over the past 75 years, household income in the United States has increased substantially.

This is the first scholarly analysis that examines the development and achievements of the American community development movement.

Historically, the welfare state of the 20th century, which was built on the foundation of an industrial economy, seems poorly adapted to a 21st-century information age.

Risk is an ever-present feature of life in a complex world, and it is important for societies to manage it in a just and efficient manner.

Disputes over government policies rage in a number of areas.

This book sheds new light on the evolution and transformation of polytheistic religions.

This book outlines a Christian ethical basis for how decisions about health care funding and priority-setting ought to be made.

This book analyzes the determinants of happiness for both the rich and the poor in the developing regions of Asia, Latin America and Africa.

Every developed country has a public employment service that connects job seekers with employers through information, placement, and training support services.

"e;A fine collection of essays exploring, and in many cases extending, Jim Buchanan's many contributions and insights to economic, political, and social theory.

The distinctive contribution of this book is the formulation of an integrated social, environmental, and economic framework for public policy.

Economics is a science that can contribute substantial powerful and fresh insights!

This book focuses on market law and policy in sub-Saharan Africa, showing how markets can be harnessed by poorer and developing economies to help make the markets work for them: to help them integrate into the world economy and provide a better standard of living for their people while preserving their values of inclusive development.

This book situates culture as a determining factor in the development of diverse welfare states, exploring the impact of traditional familialism on South Korean and Taiwanese programs.

Private pensions provision in the UK is in crisis, yet it is not the crisis often depicted in political and popular discourses.

This book demonstrates the continuing relevance of Marx's critique of the capitalist system, in which value is simply equated with market price.

Free Money for All makes the case for a basic income guarantee of $10,000 per adult US citizen.

This book examines the Thatcher government's attempt to revolutionise Britain's pensions system in the 1980s and create a nation of risk-taking savers with an individual stake in capitalism.

The concept of predistribution is increasingly setting the agenda in progressive politics.

This book modifies the existing economic theory of health analysis by integrating the issues and principles of moral philosophy in an extended framework.

This state-of-the art collection of papers analyses various aspects of the theory of externalities and public goods.

This book examines survey data to consider the extent to which public support for immigration, international trade, and foreign direct investment exists in a cohort of 38 heterogeneous countries.

This book considers aspects of transformation of former state socialist countries: social and economic outcomes; forces in the transformation process; problems of consolidation of the new regimes;and other scenarios.

Over the last few decades universities in Australia and overseas have been criticized for not meeting the needs and expectations of the societies in which they operate.

In a world beset by serious and unconscionable health disparities, by dangerous contagions that can circle our globalized planet in hours, and by a bewildering confusion of health actors and systems, humankind needs a new vision, a new architecture, new coordination among renewed systems to ensure central health capabilities for all.

How can we be happier, healthier and more satisfied in life?

The volume stresses the relevance of the intersectionality framework in welfare state analysis by examining overlapping inequalities within the shifting institutional boundaries and organisational processes across diverse welfare settings.

IZA World of Labor distils and condenses the best thinking and research on labor economic issues to enable decision-makers make better informed policy decisions.

This book focuses on the economic aspects of cloud computing, a critical ICT infrastructure in our digital age.

This book critically discusses the changing relationship between the Indian state and capital by examining the mediating role of society in influencing developmental outcomes.

This Palgrave Pivot argues that basic income at a decent level is, in fact, affordable.

Over the last three decades, Europe's generous social benefits have encouraged a massive surge of 'welfare migration,' especially of low skilled laborers.

In spite of recurrent criticism and an impressive production of alternative indicators by scholars and NGOs, GDP remains the central indicator of countries' success.

Human Development has been advocated as the prime development goal since 1990, when the publication of the first UNDP Human Development Report proposed that development should improve the lives people lead in multiple dimensions instead of primarily pursuing economic growth.

There is a lot of attention for happiness, but there is also a lot of confusion, about the concept and the nature of happiness.

This book explores the issue of consumer financial education, responding to increased interest in, and calls to improve peoples' financial literacy skills and abilities to understand and manage their money.

Recent applications of evolutionary game theory in the merging fields of the mathematical and social sciences are brilliantly portrayed in this book, which highlights social physics and shows how the approach can help to quantitatively model complex human-environmental-social systems.

Experiences of the struggle for housing, ignited by the lack of social and affordable housing, have led to the establishing of shared and self-managed housing areas.

In a series of conversational essays, this textbook discusses the manner in which economic thought addresses a broad array of everyday issues beyond classical textbook treatments.

European welfare states are undergoing profound change, driven by globalization, technical changes, and population ageing.

The fall-out from the economic and financial crisis of 2008 had profound implications for countries across the world, leading different states to determine the best approach to mitigating its effects.