Welfare Economics

How does social spending relate to economic growth and which countries have got this right and wrong? Peter Lindert examines the experience of coun...

'We need to organise politically to defend the weak, empower the many and prepare the ground for reversing the absurdities of capitalism.' Yanis ...

This book offers an analysis of European capitalist welfare societies, centering on the questions of sustainability and the financing of social rig...

Postwar employment standards are being undermined and 'non-standard' employment is becoming more common. While scholars have pointed to negative co...

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of social protection in Latin America, its origins, institutions, and outcomes. The chapters are organise...

This fourth volume examines his time in Vienna and Chicago (1931-1950), when Hayek held the prestigious University of London Tooke Professorship of...

This book primarily explores the welfare-policy responses to the Great Recession, reform trajectories that swept across Europe over the last decade...

This book analyses the immediate challenges from headlong cuts, root-and-branch restructuring and the longer-term pressures from population ageing....

The utility idea has had a long history in economics, especially in the explanation of demand and in welfare economics. In a comprehensive survey a...

Published in association with the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), this book examines the four factors that challenge the fate ...

Issues of economic inequality and poverty have become increasingly central to public debate over the past fifty years. The literature on measuring ...

Radical right parties are no longer political challengers on the fringes of party systems; they have become part of the political mainstream across...

There is no precedent to the current economic crisis which looks set to redefine social policy debate throughout the globe. But its effects are not...

The papers in Measurement of Poverty, Deprivation, and Social Exclusion represent the most current research on poverty, deprivation, and income mob...

The essays in this series offer fresh theoretical and methodological insights into the key issues in the field of economic inequality. The content ...

This book primarily explores the welfare-policy responses to the Great Recession, reform trajectories that swept across Europe over the last decade...

Will provide the latest, empirically grounded knowledge about the practice of Social Investment across ten countries, locally and regionally. The e...

Fintech Explained provides a rigorous, accessible introduction to the landscape of fintech. Michael R. King explains the customer focus, innovation...

Exploitation is a globally pervasive phenomenon. Slavery, serfdom, and the patriarchy are part of its lineage. Temporary and sex workers, commercia...

The sesquicentenary of the Great Irish Famine saw the emergence of seminal, often revisionist, scholarship addressing the impact of the catastrophe...