Welfare Economics

Handbook on Austerity, Populism and the Welfare State

Edited by Bent Greve

This innovative Handbook presents the core concepts associated with austerity, retrenchment and populism and explores how they can be used to analyse developments in different welfare states and in specific social policies. Leading exper...

Hardback (2021)

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Why Ethical Behaviour is Good for the Economy

Morris Altman

This timely book offers a nuanced critique of the nudge narrative, and demonstrates why and how ethical behaviour can have significant positive economic and wellbeing outcomes. Morris Altman models a complex alternative to the expectatio...

Hardback (2020)

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Individual Choice and Social Welfare: Theoretical Foundations of Political Economy

Edited by Viktor J. Vanberg

This important research literature review discusses some of the most prominent literature in the field of individual choice and economic welfare. It analyses material exploring how economics as a scientific enterprise may inform politica...

Paperback (2019)

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Recent Developments in the Economics of Housing

Edited by Yannis M. Ioannides

This collection compiles the most significant and contemporary literary contributions to the field of the economics of housing. Volume one includes articles that cover the housing markets demand and supply whilst considering these factor...

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Choice and Economic Welfare

Edited by Viktor J. Vanberg

This important collection brings together the most prominent literature in the field of choice and economic welfare. The volume incorporates material exploring how economics as a scientific enterprise may inform political decision-making...

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Giving Behaviours and Social Cohesion

Lorna Zischka

‘Giving’ time and money to the community indicates the existence of relationships that draw people together, and ‘who people give to’ indicates how inclusive these relational networks are. Using UK data for the analysis, Zischka argues t...

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The Economics of Fairness

Edited by Alexander W. Cappelen, Bertil Tungodden

A growing literature in economics has studied how fairness considerations shape human behavior. This research collection comprises forty key theoretical and empirical contributions spanning the last four decades, along with influential r...

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Measuring Poverty

Edited by Stephan Klasen

This impressive collection brings together the most important contributions by some of the leading scholars in the field of poverty measurement. It includes critical papers on what constitutes poverty and associated poverty measures, as ...

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Economic Growth and Poverty

Edited by Nanak Kakwani, Hyun H. Son

This single-volume compilation offers an insight to some of the most important questions economists and policymakers have been grappling over. A substantial amount of research has been carried out using cross-country regression models, r...

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Handbook of Research on Economic and Social Well-being

Edited by Conchita D’Ambrosio

The past decade has been characterized by a burgeoning interest in new concepts of individual and social well-being. The impetus for this new research has stemmed from increased demand from policy makers and civil society for measures of...

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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...

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