Welfare economics

This collection challenges the popular but abstract concept of nudging, demonstrating the real-world application of behavioral economics in policy-making and technology.

This book offers the first systematic analysis of economic thought concerning war.

Bringing together top scholars in the field, Universality and Social Policy in Canada provides an overview of the universality principle in social welfare.

This book looks at the historical and contemporary impact of minority immigrant and ethnic communities on the built and social environment in Australian cities, rural and regional areas.

By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas.

This book discusses poverty reduction and inclusive development in China.

Providing an in-depth case study on the emergence of social impact investing in the UK, this book develops a new perspective on financialization processes that highlights the roles of non-financial actors.

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

Lee explains development and retrenchment of the welfare states in developing countries through an explanatory model based around ''embedded cohesiveness''.

This book looks at two aspects of Islamic activity in the Middle East and North Africa, the development of social capital and the provision of welfare services, within the context of economic liberalisation programmes to see whether the retrenchment of the state under liberalisation has created a space for Islamic-based activities.

The essays in this series offer fresh theoretical and methodological insights into the key issues in the field of economic inequality.

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

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

This book discusses Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) and their potential to protect and maintain critical infrastructure in a variety of global governmental settings.

Recent applications of evolutionary game theory in the merging fields of the mathematical and social sciences are brilliantly portrayed in this book, which highlights social physics and shows how the approach can help to quantitatively model complex human-environmental-social systems.

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

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

Between 1930 and the mid-1970s, several thousand Canadian-born children were adopted by families in the United States.

This book provides new evidence of the theoretical and empirical causes and consequences of child labor.

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

Based on the findings of a large-scale, comparative research project, this volume systematically assesses the institutional design and national influence of the Open Method of Coordination in Social Inclusion and Social Protection (pensions and health/long-term care), at the European Union level and in ten EU Member States.

Social Policy has been a key dimension of dynamic economic growth in East Asia's 'little tigers' and is also a prominent strand of their responses to the financial crisis of the late 1990s.

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

This title discusses the phenomenon of alcohol abuse as a behavioural disease and the associated costs.

Why have social spending levels and social policy trajectories diverged so drastically across labour-abundant Middle Eastern and North African regimes?

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

The period of past four decades has been characterized as one of neo-liberalism, financialization, globalization, privatization and de-regulation.

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

This title discusses the phenomenon of alcohol abuse as a behavioural disease and the associated costs.

This book explores the trajectories and structures of Latin American welfare states using a typology developed through conceptual and historical analyses of social protection systems in Latin America.

Technological dominance is shifting the balance of global economic stability.

This book conceptualizes and clarifies the meaning of sustainable performance, approaching it holistically from different perspectives.

Why do some countries construct strong systems of social protection, while others leave workers exposed to market forces?

Neoclassical economists assume that people act to maximize their well-being: they choose based on their desires and only desire what they will like.

This book addresses the EU as powerful driver of the wave of privatizations in the network industries and public services since the early 1990s.

Understanding the complex dimensions of global poverty is crucial for tackling its diverse challenges.

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.

The European Union (EU) has reached crisis point.

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

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

Indigenous peoples and governments, industrialists and ecologists all use - or have at some stage to confront - the language of land rights.

This book presents current theories of European integration, such as federalism, neo-functionalism and liberal intergovernmentalism with their strengths and weaknesses.

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

Bryan M.

"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.

This book focuses on wealth inequality trends in the North Atlantic Anglo-sphere countries of Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States over the period from 1668 to 2013: a wider perspective than generally used when wealth inequality is discussed.

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