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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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Cost-Benefit Analysis and Dementia
Robert J. Brent
‘Robert Brent’s Cost-Benefit Analysis and Dementia provides a comprehensive and accessible examination of how economic tools can assist in making interventions for dementia more effective. Using state-of-the-art economic methods, Brent e...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook on Migration and Welfare
Edited by Markus M.L. Crepaz
‘This Handbook tackles two of the thorniest questions of the 21st century: how do we ensure the collective welfare of others, and who counts as a member of “our” collective? The impressive range of contributions, across disciplines and m...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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A Modern Guide to Citizen’s Basic Income
Malcolm Torry
‘Malcolm Torry’s A Modern Guide to Citizen’s Basic Income is a welcome addition for any student of this concept. Torry maintains an objective balance in analysing the merits of the concept and he addresses many of the critiques levelled ...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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Experimenting with Unconditional Basic Income
Edited by Olli Kangas, Signe Jauhiainen, Miska Simanainen, Minna Ylikanno
‘The editors of this brilliant volume argue that basic income is the “money of trust”. Basic income advocates and critics alike will read this book to unpack and correct the media portrait of an ambitious experiment designed to determine... -
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A Modern Guide to Philosophy of Economics
Edited by Harold Kincaid, Don Ross
‘This collection of essays is a naturalist take on modern attitudes to the theory and practice of economics. The contributors are naturalists in the sense that biologists understand the term—they comment on what is actually going on in ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook on Austerity, Populism and the Welfare State
Edited by Bent Greve
‘This timely book offers compelling, critical yet nuanced analyses of the three key features shaping welfare-state reform since the Great Recession: austerity, retrenchment and populism. Covering a rich array of European regions, sectors...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Why Ethical Behaviour is Good for the Economy
Morris Altman
‘In this ambitious and wide-ranging book, Altman takes a behaviorally informed approach to answer the perennial question of how capitalism relates to ethics. By examining the choices made by firms, consumers, and government, Altman shows...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Giving Behaviours and Social Cohesion
Lorna Zischka
‘This is an uncommon book and has great value in illustrating detail in the rationale for giving and how it connects to larger societal benefit. It will be of utmost interest to researchers working with related topics.’ – Christopher L. ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook of Research on Economic and Social Well-being
Edited by Conchita D’Ambrosio
‘This Handbook updates and modernizes decades of scholarship on macro-level markers of progress and micro-level measures of well-being. Its main contribution is its insistence on integrating non-traditional frameworks into conventional a...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Bridging the Prosperity Gap in the EU
Edited by Ulf Bernitz, Moa Mårtensson, Lars Oxelheim, Thomas Persson
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the authors invaluably pinpoint both overarching problems and possibilities associated with the social dimension of European integration. Prominent researchers of economics, law and political science...eBook:Find out more$40.00