Welfare economics books

1037 books were found.

New Private Sector Providers in the Welfare State

New Private Sector Providers in the Welfare State

Author: Jonas Pieper
ISBN: 9783319625621
Format: Hardback
$290.37

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Nordic Nationalism and Penal Order: Walling the Welfare State

Nordic Nationalism and Penal Order: Walling the Welfare...

Author: Vanessa Barker
ISBN: 9781138284111
Format: Hardback
$231.00

This book questions the dominance of neoliberalism and political economy as the main explanation for the penalization...  Read More >>

Elections, Voting Rules and Paradoxical Outcomes

Elections, Voting Rules and Paradoxical Outcomes

Author: William V. Gehrlein ,  Dominique Lepelley
ISBN: 9783319646589
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This monograph studies voting procedures based on the probability that paradoxical outcomes like the famous Condorcet...  Read More >>

Broken Benefits: What's Gone Wrong with Welfare Reform

Broken Benefits: What's Gone Wrong with Welfare Reform...

Author: Sam Royston (The Children's Society)
ISBN: 9781447333265
Format: Paperback
$28.30

In Broken Benefits, Sam Royston argues that social security isn't working, and without a change in direction, it...  Read More >>

Netzwerkorientierung in Kommune und Sozialwirtschaft: Eine Einführung

Netzwerkorientierung in Kommune und Sozialwirtschaft:...

Author: Herbert Schubert
ISBN: 9783658189976
Format: Paperback
$79.17

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Poverty and Exclusion of Minorities in China and India

Poverty and Exclusion of Minorities in China and India...

Author: A. S. Bhalla ,  Dan Luo
ISBN: 9783319539362
Format: Hardback
$343.17

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New Contractualism in European Welfare State Policies

New Contractualism in European Welfare State Policies...

Author: Rune Ervik ,  Nanna Kildal
ISBN: 9781138572010
Format: Paperback
$65.99

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The Political History of American Food Aid: An Uneasy Benevolence

The Political History of American Food Aid: An Uneasy...

Author: Barry Riley (Visiting Scholar, Visiting Scholar, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University)
ISBN: 9780190228873
Format: Hardback
$149.95

The Political History of American Food Aid provides a profound understanding of the complex factors influencing...  Read More >>

Social Security in China: On the Possibility of Equitable Distribution in the Middle Kingdom

Social Security in China: On the Possibility of Equitable...

Author: Yanzhong Wang
ISBN: 9789811056420
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This book reviews the development of China’s social security system from 1949 onwards and analyzes its features...  Read More >>

Austerity: The Lived Experience

Austerity: The Lived Experience

Author: Bryan Evans ,  Stephen McBride
ISBN: 9781487522032
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Bryan M. Evans, Stephen McBride, and their contributors delve further into the more practical, ground-level side...  Read More >>

Austerity: The Lived Experience

Austerity: The Lived Experience

Author: Bryan Evans ,  Stephen McBride
ISBN: 9781487502577
Format: Hardback
$175.00

Bryan M. Evans, Stephen McBride, and their contributors delve further into the more practical, ground-level side...  Read More >>

The Political Economy of the Small Welfare State in South Korea

The Political Economy of the Small Welfare State in...

Author: Jae-jin Yang (Yonsei University, Seoul)
ISBN: 9781108415903
Format: Hardback
$232.88

This book explains why the Korean welfare state is underdeveloped despite successful industrialization, democratization,...  Read More >>

Public Opinion on Economic Globalization: Considering Immigration, International Trade, and Foreign Direct Investment

Public Opinion on Economic Globalization: Considering...

Author: Roger White
ISBN: 9783319581026
Format: Hardback
$343.17

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The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life

The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the...

Author: Eli Cook
ISBN: 9780674976283
Format: Hardback
$74.95

How did Americans come to quantify their society’s well-being in units of money? In our GDP-run world, prices are...  Read More >>

Austerity, Community Action, and the Future of Citizenship in Europe

Austerity, Community Action, and the Future of Citizenship...

Author: Shana Cohen ,  Christina Fuhr
ISBN: 9781447331032
Format: Hardback
$179.99

Exploring secular and faith-based grassroots social action in Germany and the UK, this book provides new ways of...  Read More >>

The Austerity State

The Austerity State

Author: Stephen McBride ,  Bryan Evans
ISBN: 9781487521950
Format: Paperback
$77.99

The Austerity State provides a critical examination of the accepted discourse around austerity measures and explores...  Read More >>

The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality...

Author: Walter Scheidel ,  Joel Richards
ISBN: 9781541464131
Format: Audio
$92.37

An essential contribution to the debate about inequality, The Great Leveler provides important new insights about...  Read More >>

The Austerity State

The Austerity State

Author: Stephen McBride ,  Bryan Evans
ISBN: 9781487502362
Format: Hardback
$175.00

The Austerity State provides a critical examination of the accepted discourse around austerity measures and explores...  Read More >>

Generational Interdependencies: The Social Implications for Welfare

Generational Interdependencies: The Social Implications...

Author: Beverley A. Searle
ISBN: 9781622731862
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Drawing from examples across European countries, this collection will nonetheless be relevant to researchers and...  Read More >>

Sick of Inequality?: An Introduction to the Relationship between Inequality and Health

Sick of Inequality?: An Introduction to the Relationship...

Author: Andreas Bergh ,  Therese Nilsson
ISBN: 9781785364228
Format: Paperback
$64.75

This book reviews the latest research on the relationship between inequality and health, and provides a pedagogical...  Read More >>

After Austerity: Welfare State Transformation in Europe after the Great Recession

After Austerity: Welfare State Transformation in Europe...

Author: Peter Taylor-Gooby (Research Professor of Social Policy, Research Professor of Social Policy, University of Kent) ,  Benjamin Leruth (Research Associate, Research Associate, University of Kent)
ISBN: 9780198790273
Format: Paperback
$87.95

This book examines European welfare states, how and why they are changing, and how they are likely to develop.  Read More >>

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