Welfare economics

Although in Europe there continues to be a large degree of consensus that it is the responsibility of government to ensure that nobody who is poor, sick, disabled, unemployed, or old is left deprived, there are mounting calls to roll back spending on the welfare state.

A dramatic change of ownership, regulation, and organisation of essential public services, such as electricity, gas, and telecommunications, has taken place in Europe in less than 20 years.

Consumers routinely enter into long-term contracts with providers of goods and services - from credit cards, mortgages, cell phones, insurance, TV, and internet services to household appliances, theatre and sports events, health clubs, magazine subscriptions, transportation, and more.

While the first half of the 20th century was characterized by total war, the second half witnessed, at least in the Western world, a massive expansion of the modern welfare state.

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.

Pension policy in the UK and US is designed on the assumption that people make informed financial decisions, consistently invest in pensions and manage diverse portfolios.

This Palgrave Pivot offers a history of and proof against claims of "e;buying power"e; and the impact this myth has had on understanding media, race, class and economics in the United States.

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

This book is written in light of the latest developments in the field of multidimensional poverty measurement.

In Formal and Informal Social Safety Nets , Ashraf analyses the role of social safety nets in a time when our global economy threatens our way of life, as entire cities such as Detroit are declared bankrupt.

The Multilevel Politics of Trade presents a timely comparative analysis of eight federations (plus the European Union) to explore why some sub-federal actors have become more active in trade politics in recent years.

One of the German-speaking world's leading young sociologists lays out modern Germany's social and political crisis and its implications for the future of the European hegemon.

This book provides a theoretical basis for understanding the phenomenon of renegotiations in Public Private Partnerships (PPPs).

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.

Investigating Social Issues uses economic theory to analyse real events and problems and to evaluate different solutions.

Why have social spending levels and social policy trajectories diverged so drastically across labour-abundant Middle Eastern and North African regimes?

Volume 16 of "e;Research on Economic"e; contains a selection of thirteen papers from the Second Biannual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Berlin, July, 2007.

This volume revisits the history of welfare economics, showing that economists have regularly drawn on ethical values for practical issues.

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

In India today only 35 percent of people have access to medicines.

This book is about three key dimensions in economics globalization, migration and the welfare state that are of enduring interest.

In The Rise and Fall of Moral Conflicts in the United States and Canada, sociologist Mildred A.

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.

John Porter’s landmark study of social and ethnic inequality, The Vertical Mosaic, became an instant classic when it was first published in 1965.

This book explores the politics behind "e;de-liberalization"e;, defined as policy reforms that constrain markets and their underlying mechanisms.

Fundamental change is taking place in the provision of welfare services in Britain.

The United States has one of the most unique budgeting processes of any modern government.

What drives support for or opposition to redistributive taxation and spending?

The papers in Measurement of Poverty, Deprivation, and Social Exclusion represent the most current research on poverty, deprivation, and income mobility.

This book provides insights into how human well-being could be better defined and empirically assessed.

Few would dispute that the well-being of individuals is one of the most desirable aims of human actions.

What do we mean by inequality comparisons?

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

Betrayed takes a new approach to the subject of global poverty, one that doesn't blame the West but also doesn't rely on the West for solutions.

This monograph, based on the author's successful PhD dissertation, examines the community radio (CR) landscape in Nepal, India, and Bangladesh.

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

Understanding the complex dimensions of global poverty is crucial for tackling its diverse challenges.

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

The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world's leading public intellectualsWhere is 'home'?

Since the early 1990s, European welfare states have undergone substantial changes, in terms of objectives, areas of intervention, and instruments.

This book brings together scholars from the fields of politics, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and economics, to explore pathways towards implementing a Basic Income in Australia.

No sector has been as vital as oil to the Russian economy since Vladimir Putin came to power.

The Multilevel Politics of Trade presents a timely comparative analysis of eight federations (plus the European Union) to explore why some sub-federal actors have become more active in trade politics in recent years.

Economists studying environmental collective action and green governance have paid little attention to gender.

Muslim minorities in China and India form only a small fraction of their respective populations, yet as they principally live in troubled border states, they are of key strategic importance in the war on terror.

This book operationalizes the idea of political representation, which is fundamental to modern democracies.