Welfare Economics

In the 1960s, America set out to end poverty. Policy-makers put forth an unprecedented package of legislation, funding poverty programs and empower...

No sector has been as vital as oil to the Russian economy since Vladimir Putin came to power. The longest serving leader since Stalin, Putin has pr...

The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world's leading public intellectualsWhere is 'home'? For Amartya Sen, home has been...

This book thus takes issue with the characterisation of the South African state as developmental. The crucial aspect of care is missing from the pr...

The Country Profile of Kazakhstan, prepared at the request of the Government of Kazakhstan focuses on the housing sector, specifically on issues of...

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

The book examines the nature of the Real Living Wage as a body of civil regulation, the organizations behind the campaign and the methods they have...

The United States introduced the earned income tax credit (EITC) in 1975, where it remains the most significant earnings-based refundable credit in...

The United States introduced the earned income tax credit (EITC) in 1975, where it remains the most significant earnings-based refundable credit in...

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 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...