Welfare Economics

The 1986 article by Grossman and Hart A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration has provided a framework for understanding how firm boundaries ...

Winner of the Richard A. Lester Award for the Outstanding Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Princeton UniversityAn Economist Best E...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offere...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offere...

A powerful examination of how property shaped the modern world - and why it now threatens the freedoms and stability it was meant to sustain.Proper...

In the second decade of the 21st century, Colombia showed surprising results in the fight against poverty. Monetary poverty dropped, extreme moneta...

Can we really end poverty in Britain?Yes, we can.In this groundbreaking book, Helen Rowe brings together the latest research with stories from acro...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offere...

An engaging account of innovation in healthcare and why the results fall short for patients and society. The evolution of the cell phones we carry...

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The COVID-19 pandemic has made unpaid care more visible through its absence, while ...

This book is about tax and social policy and how they interact with each other. The impact of taxation as an instrument of social policy is centr...

This book is about tax and social policy and how they interact with each other. The impact of taxation as an instrument of social policy is centr...

In his famous report of 1942, the economist and social reformer William Beveridgewrote that the war was a 'revolutionary moment in the world's hist...

Shortlisted for the 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award!Surely just giving people money couldn't work. Or could it?...

Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State investigates political thought under the conditions of the postwar welfare state, focusing on the Fede...

In this singular collection, indigenous experts describe the social welfare systems of fifteen East Asian and Pacific Island nations and locales. V...

Why hope matters as a metric of economic and social well-beingIn a society marked by extreme inequality of income and opportunity, why should econo...