Welfare Economics
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Portfolios of the Poor: How the World''s Poor Live on $2 a Day
Daryl CollinsCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard...
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Timely Cash: Lessons From 2,500 Years of Giving People Money
Ugo GentiliniCurrent price €119.69Original price €132.99Every country provides some form of direct cash transfer to people in need, and this provision of money reaches hundreds of millions of people worl...
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Analysing the History of British Social Welfare: Compassion, Coercion and Beyond
Jonathan ParkerCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99This book offers insights into the development of social welfare policies by exploring the interconnections between policies and practice throughou...
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The Economics of Child Labour: Education, Fertility, and Infant Mortality in Developing Countries
Alessandro CignoCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99Children throughout the world are engaged in a variety of activities classifiable as work. These range from relatively harmless, even laudable, act...
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Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Lawrence JacobsCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50The 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...
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Welfare Economics: An Interpretive History
Roger A. McCainCurrent price €38.69Original price €42.99Although it was an important specialization in economics in the mid-twentieth century, welfare economics has received less attention in the twenty-...
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Intersecting Paths of Sustainable Development, Urbanization, and Womens Empowerment: 22nd Annual Conference of Indian Association of Social Sciences Institutions (IASSI), CESS, Hyderabad, India, 24...
Springer Verlag SingaporeCurrent price €155.69Original price €172.99This volume is a collection of 14 conference papers discussing India's development story around the three themes of sustainable development goals (...
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The Idea of Welfare
Robert PinkerCurrent price €107.09Original price €118.99Originally published in 1979, The Idea of Welfare critically reviews the concepts of egoism and altruism as they are expressed in residual and intu...
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The Politics of Work-Family Policy Reforms in Germany and Italy
Agnes BlomeCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99One of the fundamental challenges facing modern welfare states is the question of work-family reconciliation. An increasing share of mothers work, ...
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Harm and Responsibility: The Economic Factors Controlling the Extent of Civil and Criminal Liability
Thomas J. MiceliCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99Risk 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 ...
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Behavioral Economics in Healthcare: Understanding, Predicting, and Influencing Stakeholder Choices and Decisions
Ahmet YldrmCurrent price €80.09Original price €88.99As healthcare systems worldwide face unprecedented challenges, understanding behavioral economics becomes crucial for designing efficient, patient-...
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The Nanny State Made Me: A Story of Britain and How to Save it
Stuart MaconieCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99'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...
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Choice, Preferences, and Procedures: A Rational Choice Theoretic Approach
Kotaro SuzumuraCurrent price €75.59Original price €83.99Kotaro Suzumura is one of the worlds foremost thinkers in social choice theory and welfare economics. Bringing together essays that have become cla...
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Advancing the Power of Economic Evidence to Inform Investments in Children, Youth, and Families
and FamiliesCurrent price €51.29Original price €56.99In recent years, the U.S. federal government has invested approximately $463 billion annually in interventions that affect the overall health and w...
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Crisis and Sustainability: Responses from Different Positions: 14th Annual Conference of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Sofia, 7-8 October 2011
Peter Lang AGCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99The volume contains an editorial and nine contributions to the proceedings of the 14th international conference of the Faculty of Economics and Bus...
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Welfare Goes Global: Making Progress and Catching Up
Richard RoseCurrent price €80.99Original price €89.99This innovative book shows that the health, education, and employment of billions of people have been improving on every continent in the past thre...
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The Impact of Cloud Computing on the Japanese Macroeconomy
Atsushi OzuCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99This book focuses on the economic aspects of cloud computing, a critical ICT infrastructure in our digital age. The market for cloud computing is r...
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Retooling Development Aid in the 21st Century: The Importance of Budget Support
Lodewijk SmetsCurrent price €75.59Original price €83.99Aid instruments need to adjust to new challenges and priorities. Global pandemics, climate change, increased inequality, low economic growth, and c...
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Making Markets Work for Africa: Markets, Development, and Competition Law in Sub-Saharan Africa
Eleanor M. FoxCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99This book focuses on market law and policy in sub-Saharan Africa, showing how markets can be harnessed by poorer and developing economies to help m...
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Jilted Generation: How Britain Has Bankrupted Its Youth
Ed HowkerCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99Why are so many adult children living still living with mum and dad? Why do young people seem so disinterested in politics? And what are the hidden...
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Poverty in Canada
Raghubar SharmaCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Poverty in Canada is on the rise, particularly among certain groups. While in developing countries poverty may affect much of the population, in a ...
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Federalism and Fiscal Transfers in India
C. RangarajanCurrent price €45.89Original price €50.99India's Constitution provides for a federal framework encompassing the central, state, and local governments. The system of fiscal transfers has be...
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An Economic Analysis of the Family
John F. ErmischCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50What do economists have to say about behavior within the context of the family? This book improves our understanding of how families and markets in...
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Understanding the Multi-Dimensional Nature of Poverty
Emerald Publishing LimitedCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99Understanding the complex dimensions of global poverty is crucial for tackling its diverse challenges. While poverty manifests differently across r...
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Creating Pathways for Prosperity
Emerald Publishing LimitedCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99In the ongoing global pursuit for a fairer and more equitable world, the battle against poverty stands as a cornerstone. Addressing poverty require...
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Financial Inclusion and Livelihood Transformation: Perspective from Microfinance Institutions in Rural India
Srimoyee DattaCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99This book explores the role and effect of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) with different dimensions. It is being supported with strong empirical e...
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The Mediterranean Welfare Regime and the Economic Crisis
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99This book examines the recent evolution of the Mediterranean Welfare regime, and how the economic crisis may be contributing to redefine its basic ...
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The Mediterranean Welfare Regime and the Economic Crisis
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99This book examines the recent evolution of the Mediterranean Welfare regime, and how the economic crisis may be contributing to redefine its basic ...
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The Mediterranean Welfare Regime and the Economic Crisis
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99This book examines the recent evolution of the Mediterranean Welfare regime, and how the economic crisis may be contributing to redefine its basic ...
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Rethinking Financial Behaviour: Rationality and Resistance in the Financialization of Everyday Life
Ariane AgunsoyeCurrent price €79.89Original price €93.99Pension policy in the UK and US is designed on the assumption that people make informed financial decisions, consistently invest in pensions and ma...
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Performance Challenges in Organizational Sustainability: Practices from Public and Private Sector
Springer Verlag SingaporeCurrent price €137.69Original price €152.99This book conceptualizes and clarifies the meaning of sustainable performance, approaching it holistically from different perspectives. It focuses ...
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Fiscal Policy and Public Financial Management
Oxford University PressCurrent price €119.69Original price €132.99Over time, the scope of public finance, as a branch of economics, has expanded with the changing role of governments. When considered from the posi...
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Loneliness in Europe: Determinants, Risks and Interventions
Springer International Publishing AGCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This open-access volume accompanies the microdata release of the EU Loneliness Survey. Loneliness, often referred to as the epidemic of the 21st c...
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Multidimensional Well-Being, Deprivation and Inequality: Conceptual Issues and Measurement
P. K. PattanaikCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99This volume explores several aspects of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaums framework for thinking about individual well-being. Called the functioning...
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Planning as a welfare project: International models, theories and policies from the mid-century to the present
Peter Lang AG Internationaler Verlag der WissenschaftenCurrent price €27.89Original price €30.99This collective volume investigates the multi-scalar and international manifestations of planning models, projects and policies from the mid-twenti...
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Universal Basic Income - for and Against
Antony SammeroffCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99Current price €14.39Original price €15.99Save 10% -
Aging with Dignity: Innovation and Challenge in Sweden - The Voice of Care Professionals
Sofia WidenCurrent price €20.69Original price €22.99Demographic change is a defining issue of our time. The worldwide population is aging and countries are facing ongoing challenges in caring for the...
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Capi, Sciamani, Tiranni, Dittatori, Imperatori e Presidenti: Verso la comprensione matematica dei Gruppi Sociali
Francesco dell'IsolaCurrent price €70.19Original price €77.99Questo libro mette in luce alcune idee matematiche che aiutano a spiegare una serie di aspetti importanti della dinamica dei gruppi sociali. Le ide...
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Sicher anlegen statt sparen: Vermögen aufbauen und mehrfach verdoppeln
Werner StubenrauchCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50Der Zinseszinseffekt, das Grundgesetz der Geldvermehrung, wird in seiner Wirkung enorm unterschätzt. Vielen Geldanlegern ist nicht bekannt, dass si...
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Act Now: A Vision for a Better Future and a New Social Contract
Common Sense Policy GroupCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99An inspiring manifesto offering a radical vision for our political future.We live in an age of crisis and decline. The right presents solutions tha...
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Act Now: A Vision for a Better Future and a New Social Contract
Common Sense Policy GroupCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99An inspiring manifesto offering a radical vision for our political future.We live in an age of crisis and decline. The right presents solutions tha...
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The First Serious Optimist: A. C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics
Ian KumekawaCurrent price €38.24Original price €44.99A groundbreaking intellectual biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential economists The First Serious Optimist is an intellectua...
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The Great Upheaval: Resetting Development Policy and Institutions for the Decade of Action in Asia and the Pacific
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €98.09Original price €108.99At the turn of the 21st Century, Asia pulled one billion people out of poverty in one generation, a meteoric rise suddenly stalled by the COVID-19 ...
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A Violent World: Modern Threats to Economic Stability
Jean-Hervé LorenziCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99During the 1990s Francis Fukuyama announced the end of history. The 2000s showed how it is an illusion to imagine a peaceful world without conflict...
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Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids
Fabrizio ZilibottiCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99An international and historical look at how parenting choices change in the face of economic inequalityLove, Money, and Parenting investigates how ...
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