Welfare economics

This book discusses poverty reduction and inclusive development in China.

This book focuses on the future of the global population and proposes revising Malthus' Law.

What is the significance of entrepreneurship in an economy?

The 2007-09 financial crisis and economic downturn inflicted considerable hardship on the U.

This book deals with 18 voting procedures used or proposed for use in elections resulting in the choice of a single winner.

Building on the impressive first edition, this revised and updated book examines a wide range of highly topical issues.

This book addresses distributive justice across generations and includes original theories from distinguished economists on intergenerational equity, efficiency and rationality, which discuss policies on social security, pensions, and environmental degradation, as examples of policies of the present generation which impact upon future generations.

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

The book provides a new conceptualisation of inflation in underdeveloped economies, through Sri Lanka's historical experience.

The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics provides an accessible and authoritative guide to health economics, intended for scholars and students in the field, as well as those in adjacent disciplines including health policy and clinical medicine.

This analysis of the United States health care system reviews developments in organization and governance, health financing, health care provision, health reforms, and health system performance.

This book investigates issues related to health inequality with a particular interest on developing countries.

Inspired by the democratic origins of the Greek naval victory at Salamis, the book discusses the current pressing issues of democracy worldwide.

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was a leading figure in the British classical school of economics, best-known for extending the insights of Adam Smith at a time of revolutionary improvements in agriculture and industry.

This book explores inclusive development in the Indian context, not only within each of the country's major economic and social sectors, but also across countries in the particular context of globalization.

This Palgrave Pivot second edition argues that basic income is, in fact, affordable.

For the last five years, Britain has been under the hammer of Austerity.

What do we mean by inequality comparisons?

This book provides new interdisciplinary and comparative answers as to why banking sectors in 'liberal' and 'coordinated' market economies operated under a shared set of rules during the Global Financial Crisis.

In recent years, the U.

Inheritances are often regarded as a societal "e;evil,"e; enabling great fortunes to be passed from one generation to another, thus exacerbating wealth inequality and reducing wealth mobility.

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) provide a public good; if MFIs create and deepen markets where none existed before, there may be a case for public support.

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).

An international and historical look at how parenting choices change in the face of economic inequalityParents everywhere want their children to be happy and do well.

This book provides a critical review of the theory and practice of University Social Responsibility.

Human capital theory, or the notion that there is a direct relationship between educational investment and individual and national prosperity, has dominated public policy on education and labor for the past fifty years.

The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics provides an accessible and authoritative guide to health economics, intended for scholars and students in the field, as well as those in adjacent disciplines including health policy and clinical medicine.

This book provides an entry into the subjects of disparity and deprivation, by attending to issues that have a bearing on certain salient  philosophical and conceptual aspects of these subjects.

At least six different Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiments are underway or planned right now in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Finland, and Kenya.

This book explores the insights that can be gained by looking at the criminal justice system from an economic point of view.

Globalization of production has created opportunities and challenges for developing country producers and workers.

What are the methodologies for assessing and improving governmental policy in light of well-being?

Throughout the history of European integration, economic wealth has increased to the benefit of citizens in the European Union (EU).

The American dream of equal opportunity is in peril.

Asset-based policies are becoming an increasingly important form of social policy globally.

This introductory textbook on social choice theory makes the social choice theoretic framework and its main results, that have a direct bearing on the discourses on electoral rules and policy evaluation, accessible to a larger audience.

This book is the third installment in a series of volumes looking at episodes in American economic history from a public choice perspective.

This book addresses some of the major issues facing postal and delivery services throughout the world.

Impact evaluations must be embedded in the ongoing process of policy and programme design in order to be effective in influencing country policy.

This books focuses on co-design, and more specifically, on the various forms co-design might take to tackle the most pressing societal challenges, introducing public-interest services as the main application field.

This is the first book to describe the entire developmental history of the human aspects of economics.

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

This book explores the widening gap between the wage packets of skilled and unskilled workers that has become a pressing issue for all states in the globalized world economy.

This volume examines the role and function of religious-based organizations in strengthening associational life in a representative sample of West European countries: newly democratized and long-established democracies, societies with and without a dominant religious tradition, and welfare states with different levels and types of state-provided social services.