Welfare economics

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 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.

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

This analysis proposes a political explanation for the breakdown of Keynesian full employment in Australia.

The volume stresses the relevance of the intersectionality framework in welfare state analysis by examining overlapping inequalities within the shifting institutional boundaries and organisational processes across diverse welfare settings.

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

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

The 2008 financial crisis triggered the worst global recession since the Great Depression.

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?

It was part of common wisdom that in the early stages of development inequality would rise, but it would, eventually, decline.

McCall contests assumptions that Americans care little about income inequality, believe opportunities abound, admire the rich, and dislike redistributive policies.

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

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

Caring for Our Own inverts an enduring question of social welfare politics.

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.

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 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.

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

This book is about the harnessing of social capital, formalized as village or community organizations, to guide and facilitate collective action for attaining poverty alleviation in particular and enhancing community well-being in general.

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

Over the last three decades, Europe's generous social benefits have encouraged a massive surge of 'welfare migration,' especially of low skilled laborers.

This book compares the Chinese and Russian dreams, focusing on eight aspects: prosperity, affluence, family harmony, fairness and justice, diversity, green beauty, honesty and uprightness, and happiness.

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

This books focuses on co-design, and more specifically, on the various forms co-design might take to tackle the most pressing societal challenges, introducing public-interest services as the main application field.

The comprehensive volume deals with the manufacturing processes involved in the following Canadian industries: Aluminum, Beef, Brewing, Brick, Detergents, Flat-Drawn Glass, Asbestos-Magnesia Insulation, Iron and Steel, Magazine Publishing, Petroleum, Pulp and Paper, Rubber, Textiles (Cotton), Textiles (Wool), Textiles (Man-Made Fibres), Tobacco, Wire and Cable.

A candid explanation of how the labor market really works and is central to everything-and why it is not as healthy as we thinkRelying on unemployment numbers is a dangerous way to gauge how the labor market is doing.

This collection of essays covers a diverse set of topics related to household behavior and welfare.

There has been a remarkable upsurge of debate about increasing inequalities and their societal implications, reinforced by the economic crisis but bubbling to the surface before it.

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.

John Porter’s landmark study of social and ethnic inequality, The Vertical Mosaic, became an instant classic when it was first published in 1965.

The book discusses important developments emerging around the land questions in India in the context of India's neoliberal economic development and its changing political economy.

This book studies the impact of cleavages on electoral choices.

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

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

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

Why does poverty persist?

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

Why does poverty persist?

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

This book provides an entry into the subjects of disparity and deprivation, by attending to issues that have a bearing on certain salient  philosophical and conceptual aspects of these subjects.

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.

A New York Times BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2020A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceShortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the YearA New Statesman Book to ReadFrom economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working classDeaths of despair from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism are rising dramatically in the United States, claiming hundreds of thousands of American lives.

This cutting edge collection examines Japan's population issue, exploring how declining demographic trends are affecting Japan's social structure, specifically in the context of Greater Tokyo, life infrastructure, public finance and the economy.