Welfare economics books

Welfare State, Universalism and Diversity is a thought-provoking book dealing with key ideas, values and principles...  Read More >>

Seduction by Contract explains how consumer contracts emerge from market forces and consumer psychology. Consumers'...  Read More >>

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A fully updated and revised edition of this influential polemic on the woeful realties of being young in Britain...  Read More >>

This highly original and thought-provoking book examines the recent expansion of social protection in China, India,...  Read More >>

Discusses whether the Basic Income Guarantee could offer an alternative to both laissez-faire and existing welfare...  Read More >>

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One of the principal goals of antipoverty efforts should be to improve the absolute living standards of the least...  Read More >>

This is the first anthology published on the basic income proposal. Basic income is a policy that would assure an...  Read More >>

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Using primary data from India and Nepal, this volume is the first major study to comprehensively address the issue...  Read More >>

Justice, Sustainability, and Security not only enhances our knowledge of these issues, but it teases out our moral...  Read More >>

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This book offers a careful scrutiny of energy and telephony reforms and their social impact on households in 15...  Read More >>

This book provides an engaging, comprehensive review of health economics, with a focus on policy implications in...  Read More >>

This book aims to tackle the issues that are central to understanding and addressing one of the most important employment...  Read More >>

This book, a sequel to Inequality and Public Policy in China (2008), examines changes from 2002 to 2007 in the Chinese...  Read More >>

Having previously defined a good society as a sustainable society with a high level of development, significant...  Read More >>

Is GDP a good proxy for social welfare? Building on economic theory, this book confirms that it is not, but also...  Read More >>

This book presents an in-depth analysis of social policy reactions to international economic shocks in four different...  Read More >>

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China should complete its transition to a market economy through enterprise, land, labor, and financial sector reforms,...  Read More >>

"This book focuses on the interrelated developments in European integration and national policies on employment...  Read More >>

This book combines the two most important typologies of capitalist diversity; Esping-Andersen's welfare regime typology...  Read More >>