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.

This volume discusses the significance of human rights approaches to food and the way it relates to gender considerations, addressing links between hunger and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, agricultural productivity and the environment.

This bookexamines inclusive growth in a range of social and economic areas in India, including physical infrastructure, vulnerable sections of the population and underdeveloped states.

Written by leading scholars from various disciplines, this book presents current research on topics such as public choice, game theory, and political economy.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the determinants of EU support between 2006 and 2015, and of electoral behavior during the European Parliament elections.

This edited collection is a novel book with contributions from eleven expert researchers on the history of tourism in Europe.

This book mounts a critique of current health economics and provides a better way of looking at the economics of health and health care.

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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.

This volume goes beyond a narrow conceptualization of macroeconomic stability and explores the link between socio-economic policies, structural transformation and inclusive development.

In his landmark 1942 report on social insurance Sir William Beveridge talked about the 'five giants on the road to reconstruction' - the giants of Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.

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

Bringing together diverse approaches and case studies of international health worker migration, Global Migration, Gender, and Health Professional Credentials critically reimagines how we conceptualize the transfer of value embodied in internationally educated health professionals (IEHPs).

This book examines macroeconomic theory from an analytical framework provided by theories of complex systems, in contrast to conventional theories founded on aggregation.

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

This book examines how political party power influences public spending and private subsidies, and how these changes affect inequality.

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

This book is the first full-length treatment of the desirability and feasibility of implementing a citizen's income (also known as a basic income).

Welfare and the Great Recession surveys and analyses welfare consequences in the period following the financial crisis in Europe.

What is the significance of entrepreneurship in an economy?

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

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'A brilliant critical and fresh look at the public choice school of thought.

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

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

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 conducts a comparative analysis of social and economic changes in the welfare state transformations in China and India, at national and sub-national levels.

Combating Poverty critically analyses the growing divergence between Quebec and other large Canadian provinces in terms of social and labour market policies and their outcomes over the past several decades.

This book examines the implications of The General Theory of Second Best for analyzing the economic efficiency of non-government conduct or government policies in an economically efficient way.

The kingdom of Saudi Arabia is at a crossroads economically, and faces the challenge of a weakening economy that could implode before 2030, the year set as a timetable by the kingdom in its Vision 2030.

The European Union (EU) has reached crisis point.

It was a part of the wisdom of mainstream economics that in the early stages of development inequality would rise but as growth persisted, it would, eventually, decline.

The unconditional basic income (UBI) has attracted renewed attention in academia, as well as in public discussions in recent years, and much has been written on the possible consequences of a UBI.

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

This book explores the politics, institutional dynamics, and outcomes of neoliberal restructuring in Israel.

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This title offers an in-depth analysis of the psychological causes and consequences of, and proposed interventions for over-eating.

Providing a fresh look at some of the pressing issues of our world today, this collection focuses on experiential and ritualized coping practices in response to a multitude of environmental challenges-cyclones, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, earthquakes, warfare and displacements of peoples and environmental resource exploitation.

Report on Social Security for Canada, written in wartime, presented to Canadians a picture of a better life in the postwar world.

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?

The impact of science and technology on culture raises a number of questions about the ways in which people relate to each other and to their environment.

Suitable for courses addressing community economic development, non-profit organizations, co-operatives and the social economy more broadly, the second edition of Understanding the Social Economy expands on the authors' ground-breaking examination of organizations founded on a social mission - social enterprises, non-profits, co-operatives, credit unions, and community development organizations.

The purpose of this book is to fill the lack of micro evidences on a structural change of African producers.

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.

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