Welfare Economics

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

This book explores the role and effect of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) with different dimensions. It is being supported with strong empirical e...

This book examines the recent evolution of the Mediterranean Welfare regime, and how the economic crisis may be contributing to redefine its basic ...

This book examines the recent evolution of the Mediterranean Welfare regime, and how the economic crisis may be contributing to redefine its basic ...

This book examines the recent evolution of the Mediterranean Welfare regime, and how the economic crisis may be contributing to redefine its basic ...

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

This book conceptualizes and clarifies the meaning of sustainable performance, approaching it holistically from different perspectives. It focuses ...

Over time, the scope of public finance, as a branch of economics, has expanded with the changing role of governments. When considered from the posi...

This open-access volume accompanies the microdata release of the EU Loneliness Survey. Loneliness, often referred to as the epidemic of the 21st c...

This volume explores several aspects of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaums framework for thinking about individual well-being. Called the functioning...

This collective volume investigates the multi-scalar and international manifestations of planning models, projects and policies from the mid-twenti...

Demographic change is a defining issue of our time. The worldwide population is aging and countries are facing ongoing challenges in caring for the...

Questo libro mette in luce alcune idee matematiche che aiutano a spiegare una serie di aspetti importanti della dinamica dei gruppi sociali. Le ide...

Der Zinseszinseffekt, das Grundgesetz der Geldvermehrung, wird in seiner Wirkung enorm unterschätzt. Vielen Geldanlegern ist nicht bekannt, dass si...

An inspiring manifesto offering a radical vision for our political future.We live in an age of crisis and decline. The right presents solutions tha...

An inspiring manifesto offering a radical vision for our political future.We live in an age of crisis and decline. The right presents solutions tha...

A groundbreaking intellectual biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential economists The First Serious Optimist is an intellectua...

At 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 ...

During the 1990s Francis Fukuyama announced the end of history. The 2000s showed how it is an illusion to imagine a peaceful world without conflict...

An international and historical look at how parenting choices change in the face of economic inequalityLove, Money, and Parenting investigates how ...

The final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequalitya critically important examination of poverty around the worldIn this,...

The untold story of how welfare and development programs in the United States and Latin America produced the instruments of their own destructionIn...

Originally published in 1920, The Economics of Welfare provided a solution to the much discussed problem of externalities associated with market in...

Globalization of production has created opportunities and challenges for developing country producers and workers. This volume provides solutions-o...

In 2001 Germany and Austria became the last EU states to lift transnational controls restricting access to their labour markets for citizens of ex-...

This book provides new interdisciplinary and comparative answers as to why banking sectors in 'liberal' and 'coordinated' market economies operated...

Basic Income in Japan is the first collective volume in English entirely devoted to the discussion of Japan's potential for a basic income program ...

This book aims to tackle the issues that are central to understanding and addressing one of the most important employment policy problems facing go...

This bookexamines inclusive growth in a range of social and economic areas in India, including physical infrastructure, vulnerable sections of the ...

Having previously defined a good society as a sustainable society with a high level of development, significant provision of meaningful jobs, and l...

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

Free Money for All makes the case for a basic income guarantee of $10,000 per adult US citizen. The book shows that a basic income guarantee will i...

Based on the findings of a large-scale, comparative research project, this volume systematically assesses the institutional design and national inf...

The second volume of The Cambridge Economic History of the Modern World explores the development of modern economic growth from 1870 to the present...