Welfare Economics
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![A Modern Guide to the Economics of Happiness]()
A Modern Guide to the Economics of Happiness
Edited by Luigino Bruni, Alessandra Smerilli, Dalila De Rosa
Exploring the modern approach to the economics of happiness, which came about with the Easterlin Paradox, this book analyses and assesses the idea that as a country gets richer the happiness of its citizens remains the same. The book mov...eBook:Find out more$44.00
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A Modern Guide to Citizen’s Basic Income
Malcolm Torry
Debate on the desirability, feasibility and implementation of a Citizen’s Basic Income – an unconditional, nonwithdrawable and regular income for every individual – is increasingly widespread among academics, policymakers, and the genera...eBook:Find out more$36.00
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Understanding Economic Inequality
Todd A. Knoop
In Understanding Economic Inequality, the author brings an economist’s perspective informed by new, groundbreaking research on inequality from philosophy, sociology, psychology, and political science and presents it in a form that it is ...eBook:Find out more$36.00
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Sick of Inequality?
Andreas Bergh, Therese Nilsson, Daniel Waldenström
There is a clear trend in rich countries that despite rising incomes and living standards, the gap between rich and poor is widening. What does this mean for our health? Does increasing income inequality affect outcomes such as obesity, ...eBook:Find out more$27.20
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The Welfare State and Life Transitions
Edited by Dominique Anxo, Gerhard Bosch, Jill Rubery
This timely book reveals that new life courses are found to require more, and not less welfare support, but only Sweden has developed an active life course approach and only three more could be considered supportive, in at least some lif...eBook:Find out more$40.80
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Obesity, Business and Public Policy
Edited by Zoltán J. Ács, Alan Lyles
The effects of obesity have become practically ubiquitous in the US. This book aims to provide an alternative framework through which to explore the important and controversial obesity debate that has spilled over from the medical commun...eBook:Find out more$52.00
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Globalization, Economic Development and Inequality
Edited by Erik S. Reinert
The expert contributors gathered here approach underdevelopment and inequality from different evolutionary perspectives. It is argued that the Schumpeterian processes of ‘creative destruction’ may take the form of wealth creation in one ...eBook:Find out more$56.80
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![The Young, the Old and the State]()
The Young, the Old and the State
Edited by Anneli Anttonen, John Baldock, Jorma Sipilä
This is a comparative account of social care services for children and older people in five key industrial nations (Finland, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States). The authors break new ground by moving beyond institu...eBook:Find out more$42.40
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Globalization and the Welfare State
Ramesh Mishra
Globalization and the Welfare State is highly accessible and will be welcomed by students and scholars of social policy, social work, political science and sociology as well as by policymakers in international organizations and government. -
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Enterprise and the Welfare State
Edited by Martin Rein, Eskil Wadensjö
Enterprise and the Welfare State argues that there is more to welfare than simply provision by the state and so the focus of this book is on the welfare society rather than the welfare state. This requires a new system of statistical acc...
