Welfare economics

This book examines the theory and practice of performance budgeting, which aims make government more effective by linking the funding of government agencies to the results they deliver.

This book presents the advances in the concept, model, method, and tools for the global supply chain management.

Why hope matters as a metric of economic and social well-beingIn a society marked by extreme inequality of income and opportunity, why should economists care about how people feel?

Wiedemann reveals how the rise of financial markets as private alternatives to welfare states transforms social rights and responsibilities.

Wiedemann reveals how the rise of financial markets as private alternatives to welfare states transforms social rights and responsibilities.

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

Reveals the relationship between social spending and economic growth and which countries have got it right and wrong.

Reveals the relationship between social spending and economic growth and which countries have got it right and wrong.

Proposes an new strategy for the beyond-GDP community which aims to replace the economic paradigm centred on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2030.

Outlines the demographic and political threats to the welfare state.

Proposes an new strategy for the beyond-GDP community which aims to replace the economic paradigm centred on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2030.

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

Leading scholars from a range of disciplines come together in an inclusive discussion of the latest techniques and issues examined by the capability approach.

This book explains why the Korean welfare state is underdeveloped despite successful industrialization, democratization, a militant labor movement, and a centralized meritocracy.

Analyzes the effectiveness of the earned income tax credit in the United States and offers suggestions for how it can be improved.

This book explains why the Korean welfare state is underdeveloped despite successful industrialization, democratization, a militant labor movement, and a centralized meritocracy.

Analyzes the effectiveness of the earned income tax credit in the United States and offers suggestions for how it can be improved.

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the global growth of social assistance transfers in developing countries.

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the global growth of social assistance transfers in developing countries.

McCall contests assumptions that Americans care little about income inequality, believe opportunities abound, admire the rich, and dislike redistributive policies.

McCall contests assumptions that Americans care little about income inequality, believe opportunities abound, admire the rich, and dislike redistributive policies.

Explores disability rights groups and welfare rights activism in the 1960s and 1970s, focusing on poverty, need and welfare.

Explores disability rights groups and welfare rights activism in the 1960s and 1970s, focusing on poverty, need and welfare.

This book examines the evolution of economic inequality in China from 2002 to 2007; a sequel to Inequality and Public Policy in China (2008).

Examines the strengths of the Asian-Pacific response to the pandemic and weaknesses that the region must re-engineer to rebound.

Reveals the deep roots of the UK''s lack of resilience when COVID-19 hit and sets out an ambitious manifesto for change.

Reveals the deep roots of the UK''s lack of resilience when COVID-19 hit and sets out an ambitious manifesto for change.

An unprecedented global account of the emergence of modern economic growth and its spread across the world from 1870 to the present.

An unprecedented global account of the emergence of modern economic growth and its spread across the world from 1700 to 1870.

Intensive study of small firms in industrial clusters and locations on how to create jobs and achieve Make in India goals.

This Element examines the development of the pension crisis through the lens of political economy.

This Element examines the development of the pension crisis through the lens of political economy.

Many of the major international and intrastate crises and conflicts, but also the threat to democratic principles, are driven by belief systems and ideologies.

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

Culture is not new to the study of migration.

South Koreans in the Debt Crisis is a detailed examination of the logic underlying the neoliberal welfare state that South Korea created in response to the devastating Asian Debt Crisis (1997-2001).

Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized.

The Supply Chain Operation Reference (SCOR) framework is a proven solution to the ever-present business struggle of strengthening and improving company-wide processes.

This book introduces the same process the author has used to save companies like IBM, Kodak, and DuPont billions of dollars, simply by harnessing the knowledge of suppliers.

This book presents the new Precariat – the rapidly growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, on zero hours contracts, moving in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives.

This book presents the new Precariat – the rapidly growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, on zero hours contracts, moving in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives.

Volume 2 of Logistics, Supply Chain and Procurement Case Study Collection contains new case studies tackling Supply Chain and Procurement issues, aiming to provide solutions affecting a range of different businesses.

Vulnerability to sudden supply chain disruption is one of the major threats facing companies today.

After the most serious economic crash since the 1930s and the slowest recovery on record, austerity rules.

'A brilliant expose' - Danny DorlingCovid-19 has exposed the limits of a neoliberal public health orthodoxy.

'A brilliant expose' - Danny DorlingCovid-19 has exposed the limits of a neoliberal public health orthodoxy.

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.

A New York Times BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2020A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceShortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the YearA New Statesman Book to ReadFrom economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working classDeaths of despair from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism are rising dramatically in the United States, claiming hundreds of thousands of American lives.

A candid explanation of how the labor market really works and is central to everything-and why it is not as healthy as we thinkRelying on unemployment numbers is a dangerous way to gauge how the labor market is doing.