Welfare Economics

This book primarily explores the welfare-policy responses to the Great Recession, reform trajectories that swept across Europe over the last decade...

This book combines the two most important typologies of capitalist diversity; Esping-Andersen's welfare regime typology and Hall and Soskice's 'Var...

This book analyses the immediate challenges from headlong cuts, root-and-branch restructuring and the longer-term pressures from population ageing....

This book analyses the immediate challenges from headlong cuts, root-and-branch restructuring and the longer-term pressures from population ageing....

This book analyses recent reform trends of European health care systems. Using eight European countries case studies it connects policy reforms wit...

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of social protection in Latin America, its origins, institutions, and outcomes. The chapters are organise...

The utility idea has had a long history in economics, especially in the explanation of demand and in welfare economics. In a comprehensive survey a...

Published in association with the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), this book examines the four factors that challenge the fate ...

Issues of economic inequality and poverty have become increasingly central to public debate over the past fifty years. The literature on measuring ...

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed that governments can quickly respond to a fiscal crisis without becoming mired in unproductive wrangling. But the pa...

This book explores the trajectories and structures of Latin American welfare states using a typology developed through conceptual and historical an...

Radical right parties are no longer political challengers on the fringes of party systems; they have become part of the political mainstream across...

There is no precedent to the current economic crisis which looks set to redefine social policy debate throughout the globe. But its effects are not...

The papers in Measurement of Poverty, Deprivation, and Social Exclusion represent the most current research on poverty, deprivation, and income mob...

The essays in this series offer fresh theoretical and methodological insights into the key issues in the field of economic inequality. The content ...

This book primarily explores the welfare-policy responses to the Great Recession, reform trajectories that swept across Europe over the last decade...

Will provide the latest, empirically grounded knowledge about the practice of Social Investment across ten countries, locally and regionally. The e...

Fintech Explained provides a rigorous, accessible introduction to the landscape of fintech. Michael R. King explains the customer focus, innovation...

Exploitation is a globally pervasive phenomenon. Slavery, serfdom, and the patriarchy are part of its lineage. Temporary and sex workers, commercia...

The sesquicentenary of the Great Irish Famine saw the emergence of seminal, often revisionist, scholarship addressing the impact of the catastrophe...