Welfare economics

This wide-ranging and accessible survey of poverty in America examines every important facet of the issue, from historical and socioeconomic contributors to poverty to programs, policies, and ideas crafted to reduce income inequality and poverty across the USA.

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 evaluates the institutional environments of China and the United States, and the West more broadly, and how they affect their trading relationship, with specific emphasis on intellectual property theft and other allegations of unfair competition.

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

This book deals with 20 voting procedures used or proposed for use in elections resulting in the choice of a single winner.

Euro-Austerity and Welfare States analyses the political economy of welfare state reform in the first episode of Euro-austerity during the 1990s.

Changing Welfare States is a major new examination of the wave of social reform that has swept across Europe over the past two decades.

Bryan M.

This book reviews James Meade's prolific contribution to economics and its lasting impact.

America is the one of the wealthiest nations on earth.

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.

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

Transition economies offer a test case for concepts and theories, for broader ideas and for the methods of scientific enquiry, but also for the multiplicity of ideological interpretations.

This analysis of South Korea's development experience can present lessons for development in the 21st century.

In light of the public and scholarly debates on the challenges and problems of established democracies, such as a lack of participation, declining confidence in political elites, and the deteriorating capabilities of democratic institutions, this volume discusses the question whether democracy as such is in crisis.

Culture is not new to the study of migration.

This book demonstrates that political exchange and coalition building have become the key ingredients for continental European pension reform.

From Consent to Coercion examines the increasing assault against trade union rights and freedoms in Canada by federal and provincial governments.

Technological dominance is shifting the balance of global economic stability.

This cutting edge collection examines Japan's population issue, exploring how declining demographic trends are affecting Japan's social structure, specifically in the context of Greater Tokyo, life infrastructure, public finance and the economy.

This book provides an in-depth economic analysis of the challenges associated with bioenergy use and production.

Provides theoretical and applied contributions connected by the methodological approach to the use of general equilibrium model.

This book provides a two-level analytical framework and empirical study to analyze the reason and process of China's transition that is from a follower to driver in the field of global climate governance, and is especially valuable the dialogues and cooperation between the government, media and civil society.

This book develops an empirically informed normative theory of need-based justice, summarizing core findings of the DFG research group FOR2104 "e;Need-based Justice and Distributive Procedures"e;.

This proceedings volume explores the concept of civil society as an engine for economic and social well-being.

Global developments in basic income have reinvigorated political debates on the necessity of progressing to universal basic income implementation.

This book focuses on what makes people happy.

The central claim of this book is that the dichotomy between economic dependence and economic independence is completely inadequate for describing the political challenges faced by contemporary capitalist welfare states.

This book gives a selection of contributions from the 6th Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA)  Conference in Pescara, Italy.

This monograph studies voting procedures based on the probability that paradoxical outcomes like the famous Condorcet Paradox might exist.

Both theoretical and empirical aspects of single- and multi-winner voting procedures are presented in this collection of papers.

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.

This book examines the evolution of basic income policy and research in advanced economies and is divided into two parts.

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

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.

In this provocative new study, Zak Cope makes the case that capitalism is empirically inseparable from imperialism, historically and today.

There is a lot written on climate change from various points of view, but this is the first work that demonstrates the connection between the hunger of the poor, the deprivation of safe and healthy food on the part of those who can afford it in the wealthy countries, but still face starvation in the sense of lack of nourishment, and climate change itself.

Applying a rational choice perspective, this book presents a dynamic theory of the evolution of totalitarian regimes and terrorism.

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

This book deals with the quest for a divided welfare state in Sweden.

Applying a rational choice perspective, this book presents a dynamic theory of the evolution of totalitarian regimes and terrorism.

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This book provides an introduction to the relationship between economics and ethics, explaining why ethics enters economics, how ethics affects individual economic behaviour and the interactions of individuals, and how ethics is important in evaluating the performance of economies and of economic policies.

This book draws upon economic and sociological theory to provide a comprehensive discussion of economic space for social innovation, addressing especially marginalized groups and the long-term projects, programmes, and policies that have emerged and evolved within and across European states.

Why does poverty persist?

For centuries the pursuit of happiness was the preserve of either the philosopher or the voluptuary and took second place to the basic need to survive on the one hand, and the pressure to conform to social conventions and morality on the other.