Civil service and public sector

This edited volume brings together international and national scholars and major activists leading or spearheading basic income guarantee political initiatives in their respective countries.

This Palgrave Pivot provides a concise overview of pension systems which, whether paid by governments or by private companies, are the sole source of income for millions of people around the world.

The notion of quality features prominently in contemporary discourse.

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of traditional as well as newer topics in local public, fiscal and financial management principles and practices.

This book studies the relationship between the arts and the economy.

Globalization and the information revolution have highlighted the catalytic role of local governments for improving economic and social outcomes at the local level as well as growing the national economy by enhancing international competitiveness.

Today, the most pressing challenges for public economics are of macroeconomic nature: pensions, debt, income distribution, and fiscal sustainability.

This book offers an intellectual history of the libertarian case for markets in education.

This upper level textbook provides a coherent introduction to the economic implications of individual and population ageing.

This upper level textbook provides a coherent introduction to the economic implications of individual and population ageing.

At least six different Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiments are underway or planned right now in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Finland, and Kenya.

This book clarifies some misunderstandings about money by tying the concept of money to the goods and services sector of the economy.

Is art for everybody?

This book analyses the relationship between stakeholder engagement practices and organizational sustainability across sectors and disciplines.

This Palgrave Pivot identifies the key legal, economic, and policy issues surrounding the allowance to use and interpret electronic data consistently and in a scientifically valid manner in U.

This Palgrave Pivot offers comprehensive evidence about what people actually think of "e;nudge"e; policies designed to steer decision makers' choices in positive directions.

This volume presents the history and current state of the public-private partnership (PPP) sector in Russia.

This state-of-the art collection of papers analyses various aspects of the theory of externalities and public goods.

This book provides a comprehensive, theory-based analysis of current issues in population economics.

This volume provides a comprehensive account of Wilhelm Ropke as a liberal political economist and social philosopher.

This Palgrave Pivot argues that basic income at a decent level is, in fact, affordable.

This book deals with the Neglected Links in economics and society.

This book explores the various economic and institutional factors that explain why huge investments are made in unworthy transportation mega-projects in the US and other countries.

This book draws on financial, economic, and management theory in its exploration of the theory underlying risk and risk management at both micro- and macroeconomic levels.

Was the European Union ever a liberal dream?

This Brief examines the dynamics between the informal economy and unemployment rates, the causes of informality, its consequences and potential reduction measures at both the theoretical and empirical level.

This book discusses contemporary banking and monetary policy issues from the perspective of the Austrian School of Economics.

This book presents a comprehensive evaluation of the likely economic impact upon the UK economy arising from Brexit.

Non-communicable diseases have surpassed infectious diseases as the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in developed countries.

Common wealth dividends are universal cash payments funded by fees on the private use of common resources like land, minerals, and the atmosphere as a carbon sink.

The overall objective of the book is to holistically assess the property tax systems in BRICS megacities.

The Economics of Brexit - Revisited builds upon and extends the analysis contained within the authors' previous book, The Economics of Brexit: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the UK's Economic Relationship with the EU, which arguably represented the most comprehensive and systematic evaluation of the UK's economic relationship with the EU.

This important textbook has been revised and updated to continue its focus on the link between ethics and economic policy analysis, whilst ensuring that perspectives addressing the moral limits of the market, latest behavioural economics literature, and the changes in inequality over the years are included.

This book widens the current debate on security privatization by examining how and why an increasing number of private actors beyond private military and security companies (PMSCs) have come to perform various security related functions.

This volume presents selected papers from the 18th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, with major emphasis placed on highlighting the latest research developments in the economics of innovation, public economics, and management.

There is a lot of attention for happiness, but there is also a lot of confusion, about the concept and the nature of happiness.

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 introduces a refreshing approach to twenty-first-century scientific approach in an age, which is also known as the Century of Complexity.

This book argues that economic activity in the public sphere now underwrites private corporations, and rejects rigid adherence to traditional economic theories that no longer apply.

Applying the principles of Optimal Control Theory to the problem of regional allocation of investment can be a useful tool for demonstrating how the trade-off between regional equity and overall efficiency can be overcome.

This book presents case studies to analyse the relationship between sustainability - environmental, social, institutional and economic - and digital innovation.

This book analyses the economic consequences of the regional government of Catalonia's challenge to democracy and the rule of law in Spain.

This book investigates the economic decisions behind the implementation of public-private partnerships (PPPs).

This book presents a set of original and innovative contributions on state, institutions and democracy in the field of political economy.

The sustainability of public pension systems has become an important aspect for governments and institutions worldwide.

This volume presents selected contributions from the 2018 conference of the International Schumpeter Society (ISS).

This book brings together insights and reflections following a set of interviews conducted with the main stakeholders involved in past, current, and future basic income experiments.

This book explores the origins of Arthur Laffer's economic theories and how they became a part of mainstream economic policy.

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.

This book offers a comprehensive empirical analysis of South African inflation dynamics, using a variety of techniques including counterfactual analysis.