Welfare economics

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 title offers an in-depth analysis of the causes, consequences and treatments of illicit drug abuse.

This book addresses the socioeconomic effects of immigration to Sweden.

In the ongoing global pursuit for a fairer and more equitable world, the battle against poverty stands as a cornerstone.

The Richer, The Poorer charts the rollercoaster history of both rich and poor and the mechanisms that link wealth and impoverishment.

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

This book develops an understanding of workplace justice and labour rights in Vietnam from factory workers' voices and their resistance against abuse and exploitation.

This volume explores the relationship between law and economics principles and the promotion of social justice.

Could democracy do better?

Das Lehrbuch führt von der Geschäftsidee über die Unternehmenskonzeption bis zum Businessplan in die essenziellen Begriffe und Gegenstände sozialwirtschaftlicher Existenzgründung ein.

This book analyses the processes through which the modern forms of large fortunes are amassed.

The book analyzes the changing meaning and measure of social value in an era of caring capitalism.

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

A major part of the British government's privatization programme, which has been heralded as a radical break in government, were its oil assets.

This book, the first of two volumes, highlights the concept of financial inclusion from the Islamic perspective.

The final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality-a critically important examination of poverty around the worldIn this, his final book, economist Anthony Atkinson, one of the world's great social scientists and a pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality, offers an inspiring analysis of a central question: What is poverty and how much of it is there around the globe?

Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State investigates political thought under the conditions of the postwar welfare state, focusing on the Federal Republic of Germany (1949-1989).

This book presents the fundamentals of evolutionary game theory and applies them to the analysis of epidemics, which is of paramount importance in the aftermath of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.

This interdisciplinary collection of essays takes a hard look at the gap between increasingly costs expectations of welfare including other social needs and available revenues.

In the modern Western world, we tend to be insured by the state or for-profit insurers.

This volume presents new methods and applications in longitudinal data estimation methodology in applied economic.

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 presents a theoretically-based comprehensive analysis of macroeconomic consequences of fiscal policy using a popular economic model: the overlapping generations growth model.

Consumption, Jobs and the Environment argues that the present pattern of development, based on everlasting economic growth, is completely unsatisfactory from a welfare point of view.

This textbook covers microeconomic theory at the level of intermediate and advanced undergraduates.

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

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

This book addresses the socioeconomic effects of immigration to Sweden.

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

This book - the first of two volumes- looks at episodes in American economic history from a public choice perspective.

In India today only 35 percent of people have access to medicines.

This book enables readers to better understand, explain, and predict the future of the nation's overall economic health through its examination of the black working class-especially the experiences of black women and black working-class residents outside of urban areas.

Walking the Highwire tells the story of the Eurozone Crisis from the perspective of the former Vice-President of the European Commission who was responsible for Economic and Monetary Affairs in 2010-2014.

In this provocative new study, Zak Cope makes the case that capitalism is empirically inseparable from imperialism, historically and today.

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.

Updated insight into key facts impacting on financial institutions after the financial crisis, highlighting areas of major policy and academic interest.

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

Private pensions provision in the UK is in crisis, yet it is not the crisis often depicted in political and popular discourses.

American food aid to foreigners long has been the most visible-and most popular-means of providing humanitarian aid to millions of hungry people confronted by war, terrorism and natural cataclysms and the resulting threat-often the reality-of famine and death.

Economics and ethics are both valuable tools for analyzing the behavior and actions of human beings and institutions.

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.

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.

Immiserizing growth occurs when growth fails to benefit, or harms, those at the bottom.

This book situates culture as a determining factor in the development of diverse welfare states, exploring the impact of traditional familialism on South Korean and Taiwanese programs.

The leading textbook on imperfect labor markets and the institutions that affect them-now completely updated and expandedToday's labor markets are witnessing seismic changes brought on by such factors as rising self-employment, temporary employment, zero-hour contracts, and the growth of the sharing economy.

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.