Welfare Economics

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...

What does the future hold for the welfare state in the post-industrial 21st century? Political and economic forces are threatening the taxation reg...

Decades into its existence as a foundational aspect of modern political and economic life, the welfare state has become a political cudgel, used to...

A New York Times BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2020A New York Times Book Review Editors ChoiceShortlis...

A candid explanation of how the labor market really works and is central to everythingand why it is not as healthy as we thinkRelying on unemployme...

At a time when austerity is claimed by some to be the only answer to todays economic woes, a close look at the best practices used in Scandinavia i...

A New York Times BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2020A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceShortli...

A revealing look at austerity measures that succeedand those that don'tFiscal austerity is hugely controversial. Opponents argue that it can trigge...

A candid assessment of why the job market is not as healthy as we thinkDon't trust low unemployment numbers as proof that the labor market is doing...

An international and historical look at how parenting choices change in the face of economic inequalityParents everywhere want their children to be...

Amidst the debates about 'austerity' a number of vital debates in public finance have been sidelined. Because the reductions in government spending...

Preface This book is written for those who do not yet share a Green world view, but who do have stirrings of unease that we are not looking after t...

From the international bestselling author of The Post-American World 'An intelligent, learned and judicious guide for a world already in the making...

Why was the UK so unprepared for the pandemic, suffering one of the highest death rates and worst economic contractions of the major world economie...

Social investment policies have enjoyed prominence during recent welfare reforms across the OECD world, and yet there is insufficient long-term str...

Economic theories and models shape our everyday lives. They are relied on by politicians when tax rises or cuts are being considered. They inform d...

Introduction and conclusion available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The turn towards a Social Investment approach to welfare implies deployin...

The author raises some fundamental questions about the distribution of wealth. Why is it that those who produce the wealth, the workers, receive on...

A timely and incisive look at austerity measures that succeedand those that dontFiscal austerity is hugely controversial. Opponents argue that it c...

In the critically acclaimed La Fin de la Pauverté?, Romain D. Huret identifies a network of experts who were dedicated to the post-World War II bat...

For the last five years, Britain has been under the hammer of ''Austerity''. In its name, wages have been frozen, benefits have been slashed and pu...

First published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously influential account of America's enduring debate about pove...

Poverty, and calls to end it, date back centuries. Even in prosperous modern times, despite the huge transformation of society, poverty has persist...