Welfare Economics

Joseph Stiglitz has had a remarkable career. He is a brilliant academic, capped by sharing the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics and the Nobel Peac...

Joseph Stiglitz has had a remarkable career. He is a brilliant academic, capped by sharing the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics and the Nobel Peac...

Neoclassical economists assume that people act to maximize their well-being: they choose based on their desires and only desire what they will like...

Over 30 percent of the world's adults lack access to basic financial toolsmore often women, members of minority groups, and poor families. The abil...

Poverty is something we all want to see less of. So why does it prove so difficult to tackle? Can empathy help fix it?'An important and necessary b...

'A rallying cry for a deep rethink of how we build, buy and manage homes.' ARCHITECTS' JOURNAL'A calm analysis of the concept of property ownership...

This volume contains research on how we measure poverty, inequality and welfare and how we use such measurements to devise policies to deliver soci...

This book presents a comprehensive model that simulates human behavior in society, meticulously selecting and analyzing fundamental determinants su...

Can one city's solutions to homelessness help the United States face the issue nationally?The United States grapples with a solution for the unhous...

Every country provides some form of direct cash transfer to people in need, and this provision of money reaches hundreds of millions of people worl...

This book offers insights into the development of social welfare policies by exploring the interconnections between policies and practice throughou...

Children throughout the world are engaged in a variety of activities classifiable as work. These range from relatively harmless, even laudable, act...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in U.S. social legislation, and the Supreme Co...

Although it was an important specialization in economics in the mid-twentieth century, welfare economics has received less attention in the twenty-...

This volume is a collection of 14 conference papers discussing India's development story around the three themes of sustainable development goals (...

Originally published in 1979, The Idea of Welfare critically reviews the concepts of egoism and altruism as they are expressed in residual and intu...

One of the fundamental challenges facing modern welfare states is the question of work-family reconciliation. An increasing share of mothers work, ...

Risk is an ever-present feature of life in a complex world, and it is important for societies to manage it in a just and efficient manner. One way ...

As healthcare systems worldwide face unprecedented challenges, understanding behavioral economics becomes crucial for designing efficient, patient-...

'He is as funny as Bryson and as wise as Orwell' ObserverIt was the spirit of our finest hour, the backbone of our post-war greatness, and it promo...

Kotaro Suzumura is one of the worlds foremost thinkers in social choice theory and welfare economics. Bringing together essays that have become cla...

In recent years, the U.S. federal government has invested approximately $463 billion annually in interventions that affect the overall health and w...