Welfare Economics
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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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Introduction to Cost–Benefit Analysis
Ginés de Rus
Acclaim for the first edition: ‘Ginés de Rus has produced an excellent book which will be very useful to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in public economics as well as to professional economists working with project evaluat...eBook:Find out more$36.00
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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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Advanced Introduction to Cost–Benefit Analysis
Robert J. Brent
This concise yet comprehensive introduction aims to outline the core principles of Cost–Benefit Analysis (CBA), laying them out in an accessible manner with minimum technical detail. The applied nature of the subject is emphasized by sho...eBook:Find out more$25.16
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Sick of Inequality?
Andreas Bergh, Therese Nilsson, Daniel Waldenström
‘With this book Bergh, Nilsson and Waldenström bring a nuanced contribution to a research field torn by controversies and heated polemics. In a clear and pedagogical manner the authors sift through the research and weigh the evidence. It...eBook:Find out more$27.20
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Public Microeconomics
Joaquim Silvestre
This book contains a concise, simple, yet precise discussion of externalities, public goods and insurance. Rooted in the first fundamental theorem of welfare economics and in noncooperative equilibrium, it employs elementary calculus. Th...eBook:Find out more$38.36
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The Welfare State and Life Transitions
Edited by Dominique Anxo, Gerhard Bosch, Jill Rubery
‘The Welfare State and Life Transitions presents a novel assessment of social policy in European countries. This collection of nine country studies neatly melds two distinct lines of social scientific inquiry: comparative welfare state s...eBook:Find out more$40.80
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Handbook of Research on Cost–Benefit Analysis
Robert J. Brent
‘This is a very nice and very useful set of articles on cost–benefit applications. The book will be particularly useful for students but also for professionals interested in keeping up with the state of applied work. I will use some of t... -
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Obesity, Business and Public Policy
Edited by Zoltán J. Ács, Alan Lyles
‘This collection of essays provides a thorough overview of the complex issue of obesity. . . The book provides an excellent overview of the obesity problem in the US, and does an excellent job of suggesting potential solutions, along wit...eBook:Find out more$52.00
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Handbook on the Economics of Discrimination
Edited by William M. Rodgers III
‘Editor Rodgers has compiled a very useful book that summarizes the current state of the literature on economic discrimination. . . This reviewer learned something new and interesting in every chapter and particularly appreciated the cle...eBook:Find out more$65.60
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Pricing Nature
Nick Hanley, Edward B. Barbier
‘This is an excellent text that could be used in specialist academic courses in environmental and natural resource economics, ecological economics and cost–benefit analysis, as well as in interdisciplinary courses in public policy, plann...eBook:Find out more$45.56