Welfare economics

There are now increasing concerns about the need to upgrade public infrastructure, improve the delivery of public services, and explore new options for partnering with the private sector.

This book reviews the development of China's social security system from 1949 onwards and analyzes its features in each stage.

This book inquires into the Capability Approach, a value theory of freedom, which crystalizes the interests of Marx, Welfare Economics, Social Choice, and Ethics.

This volume examines minimality in cooperation and shared agency from various angles.

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

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

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.

Disputes over government policies rage in a number of areas.

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.

There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago.

Investigating Social Issues uses economic theory to analyse real events and problems and to evaluate different solutions.

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.

Precariousness has become a defining experience in contemporary society, as an inescapable condition and state of being.

Once called the "e;dismal science,"e; economics now offers prescriptions for improving people's happiness.

Consumers routinely enter into long-term contracts with providers of goods and services - from credit cards, mortgages, cell phones, insurance, TV, and internet services to household appliances, theatre and sports events, health clubs, magazine subscriptions, transportation, and more.

These lectures aim to help readers understand the logics and nature of the main indicators of inequality and poverty, with special attention to their social welfare underpinnings.

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

Pension policy in the UK and US is designed on the assumption that people make informed financial decisions, consistently invest in pensions and manage diverse portfolios.

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This book presents a systematic overview on partition function form games: a game form in cooperative game theory to integrate externalities for various applications.

This book provides a critical review of the theory and practice of University Social Responsibility.

This book studies the impact of cleavages on electoral choices.

This book evaluates the institutional environments of China and the United States, and the West more broadly, and how they affect their trading relationship, with specific emphasis on intellectual property theft and other allegations of unfair competition.

Tax by Design identifies what makes a good tax system for an open developed economy in the 21st century and suggests how the UK tax system could be reformed to move in that direction.

The authors examine how the USA, Great Britain, France, Sweden and Germany have responded to the increasing challenge of international competition since the mid-1970s.

The story of China's spectacular economic growth is well known.

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 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.

In almost every country, wealth is predominantly constituted by housing equity, but what are the possible risks and how does wealth accumulation vary across countries?

To a backdrop of ageing societies, pension crises and labour market reforms, this book investigates how the policy shift from early retirement to active ageing has affected individual retirement behaviour.

This volume offers a collection of studies on problem of organization's efficiency, criteria for evaluating the efficiency, tools and methods for measuring the efficiency.

The impact of science and technology on culture raises a number of questions about the ways in which people relate to each other and to their environment.

Mainstream economics almost completely ignores the role power plays in determining economic outcomes, which means it can only provide partial explanations of the distribution of wealth and income, and of the problems associated with inequality and poverty.

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

Increasingly flexible labour markets and reforms of old-age pension systems are still ranking high on the political agenda of European countries.

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

This book highlights the importance of economic knowledge in government decision-making.

This book explores the role and effect of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) with different dimensions.

This book takes stock of major and recent developments in welfare policy in the UK and Germany.

Since World War II the subject of social choice has grown in many and surprising ways.

More than three billion people in the world live on less than two-and-a-half U.

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.

This study examines and explains the relationship between social health insurance (SHI) participation and out-of-pocket expenditures (OOP) as well as the mediating role the institutional arrangement of SHI plays in this relationship in China.

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.

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 book examines and evaluates two approaches to social justice, the capabilities approach and the primary goods approach.