Welfare economics

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

This book critically discusses the changing relationship between the Indian state and capital by examining the mediating role of society in influencing developmental outcomes.

The book presents academic research on urbanization, urban poverty and slum development initiatives in South Asia, in general, and Bangladesh, in particular, in the light of global slum upgrading initiatives.

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.

This Handbook responds to the needs and aspirations of current and future generations of development economists by providing critical reference material alongside or in relation to mainstream propositions.

Economics is a science that can contribute substantial powerful and fresh insights!

This collection of essays represents responses by over eighty scholars to an unusual request: give your high level assessment of the field of economic design, as broadly construed.

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

This book presents a panoramic view of the implications from Richard Easterlin's groundbreaking work on happiness and economics.

This book presents a selection of contributions on the timely topic of structural reforms in Western economies, written by experts from central banks, the International Monetary Fund, and leading universities.

This book provides a general framework for the use of theoretical contributions in empirical works, addressing the question of what is the effect of a price change on household well-being.

This book investigates how paid care work and employment are being transformed by policies of social care individualisation in the context of new gig economies of care.

This book explores three major changes in the circumstances of the migrant working class in south China over the past three decades, from historical and comparative perspectives.

How can we be happier, healthier and more satisfied in life?

This book is Volume I of a two-volume set on antitrust policy, analyzing the economic efficiency and moral desirability of various tests for antitrust legality, including those promulgated by US and EU antitrust law.

This edited collection investigates how full employment programs can sustain the economy and the environment, promote social justice, and reinvigorate local communities.

This book honors the memory of Tony Atkinson, who made significant contributions to the rigorous study of income inequality, poverty, and redistribution.

This book sheds new light on the evolution and transformation of polytheistic religions.

This revised and expanded book focuses on Hilferding's major work, Finance Capital.

This book deals with the basic question of what money can and cannot buy and offers an analysis of the limitations of the market mechanism.

The second edition of 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.

The second edition of 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.

This book presents research on recent developments in collective decision-making.

This book presents research on recent developments in collective decision-making.

This volume explores several aspects of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum's framework for thinking about individual well-being.

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

"e;A fine collection of essays exploring, and in many cases extending, Jim Buchanan's many contributions and insights to economic, political, and social theory.

Classical liberalism has wrongly been regarded as an ideology that rejects the welfare state.

Technological dominance is shifting the balance of global economic stability.

This book provides numerous examples that apply the modern theory of bureaucracy developed in Breton and Wintrobe (1982 and 1986) to the Nazi Holocaust.

This book adopts a long-term perspective to consider political self-determination, peacekeeping and the creation of political meaning.

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.

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.

This book explores the incentives and effects of modern welfare policy, contrasted with outcomes of global basic income pilots in the past seventy years.

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

This Palgrave Pivot employs the concept of open source agriculture as a new social movement, which not only advocates a specific agenda but also creates technological products under a unique technology development model.

This book offers an intellectual history of the libertarian case for markets in education.

This edited volume is focused on Hilferding's major work, Finance Capital.

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

This book examines the major economic challenges associated with the sustainability of public pensions, specifically demographic change, labor-market relations, and risk sharing.

This book provides a study of the forces underlying the development of economic thought at Cambridge University during the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century.

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.

How, where and when can a universal basic income be put into political practice?

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

This book explores the foundations and potential of a theory of need-based distributive justice, supported by experimental evidence.

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

This book, a second edition, includes new data from the 2010 Census of India and NSS reports on consumer expenditure (2011-12), health and education (2014) to examine poverty in China and India, and how it connects with minorities.