Welfare economics

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.

Every developed country has a public employment service that connects job seekers with employers through information, placement, and training support services.

This is an open access title.

This volume represents the beginning of a 'cross pollination' of different social scientific disciplines, bridging the boundaries between national and disciplinary epistemic communities in the worlds of European welfare markets.

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

This book addresses distributive justice across generations and includes original theories from distinguished economists on intergenerational equity, efficiency and rationality, which discuss policies on social security, pensions, and environmental degradation, as examples of policies of the present generation which impact upon future generations.

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

This book addresses the socioeconomic effects of immigration to Sweden.

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

The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics provides an accessible and authoritative guide to health economics, intended for scholars and students in the field, as well as those in adjacent disciplines including health policy and clinical medicine.

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

This is a challenge to conventional thinking around money and the 'debt crisis'.

This book studies the impact of cleavages on electoral choices.

Experiences of the struggle for housing, ignited by the lack of social and affordable housing, have led to the establishing of shared and self-managed housing areas.

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

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

This book offers an in-depth analysis of social welfare system in a rentier state, Qatar, tracing its evolution and institutional development.

Impact Investing – wirkungsorientiertes Investieren – steckt in Deutschland im Vergleich zu anderen Ländern noch in den Kinderschuhen.

Throughout the history of European integration, economic wealth has increased to the benefit of citizens in the European Union (EU).

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.

The distinctive contribution of this book is the formulation of an integrated social, environmental, and economic framework for public policy.

From a giant of health care policy, an engaging and enlightening account of why American health care is so expensive-and why it doesn't have to beUwe Reinhardt was a towering figure and moral conscience of health care policy in the United States and beyond.

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought the nagging issue of the Global South's debt back into the spotlight.

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.

This short book reviews the provision of food bank and other emergency food aid provision with a specific focus on the UK, whilst drawing lessons from North America, Brazil and Europe.

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.

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

This book explores the role of the welfare state in the overall wealth and wellbeing of nations and in particular looks at the American welfare state in comparison with other developed nations in Europe and elsewhere.

This book explores the widening gap between the wage packets of skilled and unskilled workers that has become a pressing issue for all states in the globalized world economy.

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

Imperial Inequalities takes Western European empires and their legacies as the explicit starting point for discussion of issues of taxation and welfare.

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.

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

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

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

The ongoing social crises and moral conflicts evident in global social policy debates are addressed in this timely volume.

This book presents a collection of papers illustrating the variety of "e;experimental"e; methodologies used to study voting.

The Scandinavian welfare-state model is changing.

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

This book provides comprehensive analysis and descriptions of China's ageing finance system .

As digitalization and social media are increasingly blurring the boundaries between traditional societal, political, and economic institutions, this book provides a cross-disciplinary examination of value co-creation.

This book contains invited essays in memory of Leonid Hurwicz spanning a large area of economic, social and other sciences where the implementation or enforcement of institutions and rules requires the design of effective mechanisms.

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