Welfare Economics
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Portfolios of the Poor: How the World''s Poor Live on $2 a Day
Daryl CollinsCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard...
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The Impact of Cloud Computing on the Japanese Macroeconomy
Atsushi OzuCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99This book focuses on the economic aspects of cloud computing, a critical ICT infrastructure in our digital age. The market for cloud computing is r...
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Retooling Development Aid in the 21st Century: The Importance of Budget Support
Lodewijk SmetsCurrent price €75.59Original price €83.99Aid instruments need to adjust to new challenges and priorities. Global pandemics, climate change, increased inequality, low economic growth, and c...
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Making Markets Work for Africa: Markets, Development, and Competition Law in Sub-Saharan Africa
Eleanor M. FoxCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99This book focuses on market law and policy in sub-Saharan Africa, showing how markets can be harnessed by poorer and developing economies to help m...
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Jilted Generation: How Britain Has Bankrupted Its Youth
Ed HowkerCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99Why are so many adult children living still living with mum and dad? Why do young people seem so disinterested in politics? And what are the hidden...
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Poverty in Canada
Raghubar SharmaCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Poverty in Canada is on the rise, particularly among certain groups. While in developing countries poverty may affect much of the population, in a ...
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Federalism and Fiscal Transfers in India
C. RangarajanCurrent price €45.89Original price €50.99India's Constitution provides for a federal framework encompassing the central, state, and local governments. The system of fiscal transfers has be...
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An Economic Analysis of the Family
John F. ErmischCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50What do economists have to say about behavior within the context of the family? This book improves our understanding of how families and markets in...
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Understanding the Multi-Dimensional Nature of Poverty
Emerald Publishing LimitedCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99Understanding the complex dimensions of global poverty is crucial for tackling its diverse challenges. While poverty manifests differently across r...
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Creating Pathways for Prosperity
Emerald Publishing LimitedCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99In the ongoing global pursuit for a fairer and more equitable world, the battle against poverty stands as a cornerstone. Addressing poverty require...
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Financial Inclusion and Livelihood Transformation: Perspective from Microfinance Institutions in Rural India
Srimoyee DattaCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99This book explores the role and effect of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) with different dimensions. It is being supported with strong empirical e...
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The Mediterranean Welfare Regime and the Economic Crisis
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99This book examines the recent evolution of the Mediterranean Welfare regime, and how the economic crisis may be contributing to redefine its basic ...
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The Mediterranean Welfare Regime and the Economic Crisis
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99This book examines the recent evolution of the Mediterranean Welfare regime, and how the economic crisis may be contributing to redefine its basic ...
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The Mediterranean Welfare Regime and the Economic Crisis
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99This book examines the recent evolution of the Mediterranean Welfare regime, and how the economic crisis may be contributing to redefine its basic ...
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Rethinking Financial Behaviour: Rationality and Resistance in the Financialization of Everyday Life
Ariane AgunsoyeCurrent price €79.89Original price €93.99Pension policy in the UK and US is designed on the assumption that people can make informed financial decisions, can consistently invest in pension...
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Performance Challenges in Organisational Sustainability: Practices from Public and Private Sector
Springer Verlag SingaporeCurrent price €137.69Original price €152.99This book conceptualizes and clarifies the meaning of sustainable performance, approaching it holistically from different perspectives. It focuses ...
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Fiscal Policy and Public Financial Management
Oxford University PressCurrent price €119.69Original price €132.99Over time, the scope of public finance, as a branch of economics, has expanded with the changing role of governments. When considered from the posi...
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Loneliness in Europe: Determinants, Risks and Interventions
Springer International Publishing AGCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This open-access volume accompanies the microdata release of the EU Loneliness Survey. Loneliness, often referred to as the epidemic of the 21st c...
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Multidimensional Well-Being, Deprivation and Inequality: Conceptual Issues and Measurement
P. K. PattanaikCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99This volume explores several aspects of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaums framework for thinking about individual well-being. Called the functioning...
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Planning as a welfare project: International models, theories and policies from the mid-century to the present
Peter Lang AG Internationaler Verlag der WissenschaftenCurrent price €27.89Original price €30.99This collective volume investigates the multi-scalar and international manifestations of planning models, projects and policies from the mid-twenti...
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Universal Basic Income - for and Against
Antony SammeroffCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99Current price €14.39Original price €15.99Save 10% -
Aging with Dignity: Innovation and Challenge in Sweden - The Voice of Care Professionals
Sofia WidenCurrent price €20.69Original price €22.99Demographic change is a defining issue of our time. The worldwide population is aging and countries are facing ongoing challenges in caring for the...
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Capi, Sciamani, Tiranni, Dittatori, Imperatori e Presidenti: Verso la comprensione matematica dei Gruppi Sociali
Francesco dell'IsolaCurrent price €70.19Original price €77.99Questo libro mette in luce alcune idee matematiche che aiutano a spiegare una serie di aspetti importanti della dinamica dei gruppi sociali. Le ide...
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Sicher anlegen statt sparen: Vermögen aufbauen und mehrfach verdoppeln
Werner StubenrauchCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50Der Zinseszinseffekt, das Grundgesetz der Geldvermehrung, wird in seiner Wirkung enorm unterschätzt. Vielen Geldanlegern ist nicht bekannt, dass si...
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Act Now: A Vision for a Better Future and a New Social Contract
Common Sense Policy GroupCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99An inspiring manifesto offering a radical vision for our political future.We live in an age of crisis and decline. The right presents solutions tha...
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Act Now: A Vision for a Better Future and a New Social Contract
Common Sense Policy GroupCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99An inspiring manifesto offering a radical vision for our political future.We live in an age of crisis and decline. The right presents solutions tha...
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The First Serious Optimist: A. C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics
Ian KumekawaCurrent price €38.24Original price €44.99A groundbreaking intellectual biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential economists The First Serious Optimist is an intellectua...
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The Great Upheaval: Resetting Development Policy and Institutions for the Decade of Action in Asia and the Pacific
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €98.09Original price €108.99At 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 ...
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A Violent World: Modern Threats to Economic Stability
Jean-Hervé LorenziCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99During the 1990s Francis Fukuyama announced the end of history. The 2000s showed how it is an illusion to imagine a peaceful world without conflict...
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Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids
Fabrizio ZilibottiCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99An international and historical look at how parenting choices change in the face of economic inequalityLove, Money, and Parenting investigates how ...
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Measuring Poverty around the World
Anthony B. AtkinsonCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50The final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequalitya critically important examination of poverty around the worldIn this,...
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Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas
Professor Amy C. OffnerCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99The untold story of how welfare and development programs in the United States and Latin America produced the instruments of their own destructionIn...
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The Economics of Welfare
A. PigouCurrent price €61.19Original price €67.99Originally published in 1920, The Economics of Welfare provided a solution to the much discussed problem of externalities associated with market in...
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Towards Better Work: Understanding Labour in Apparel Global Value Chains
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99Globalization of production has created opportunities and challenges for developing country producers and workers. This volume provides solutions-o...
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Central and East European Migrants'' Contributions to Social Protection
S. MaatschCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99In 2001 Germany and Austria became the last EU states to lift transnational controls restricting access to their labour markets for citizens of ex-...
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Bank Behaviour and Resilience: The Effect of Structures, Institutions and Agents
C. BakirCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99This book provides new interdisciplinary and comparative answers as to why banking sectors in 'liberal' and 'coordinated' market economies operated...
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Basic Income in Japan: Prospects for a Radical Idea in a Transforming Welfare State
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99Basic Income in Japan is the first collective volume in English entirely devoted to the discussion of Japan's potential for a basic income program ...
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Disability Benefits, Welfare Reform and Employment Policy
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book aims to tackle the issues that are central to understanding and addressing one of the most important employment policy problems facing go...
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Inclusiveness in India: A Strategy for Growth and Equality
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This bookexamines inclusive growth in a range of social and economic areas in India, including physical infrastructure, vulnerable sections of the ...
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Toward a Good Society in the Twenty-First Century: Principles and Policies
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Having previously defined a good society as a sustainable society with a high level of development, significant provision of meaningful jobs, and l...
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Labour Market Flexibility and Pension Reforms: Flexible Today, Secure Tomorrow?
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Increasingly flexible labour markets and reforms of old-age pension systems are still ranking high on the political agenda of European countries. T...
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Free Money for All: A Basic Income Guarantee Solution for the Twenty-First Century
Mark WalkerCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99Free 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...
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Assessing the Open Method of Coordination: Institutional Design and National Influence of EU Social Policy Coordination
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Based on the findings of a large-scale, comparative research project, this volume systematically assesses the institutional design and national inf...
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The Cambridge Economic History of the Modern World: Volume 2, 1870 to the Present
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €125.99Original price €139.99The second volume of The Cambridge Economic History of the Modern World explores the development of modern economic growth from 1870 to the present...
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The Cambridge Economic History of the Modern World: Volume 1, 1700 to 1870
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €125.99Original price €139.99The first volume of The Cambridge Economic History of the Modern World traces the emergence of modern economic growth in eighteenth century Britain...
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