Welfare Economics

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 ...

Paperback (2007)

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Work, Leisure and the Environment

Tim Robinson

This significant book explains how work–life balance is being destroyed because individuals fail to link their work effort with its adverse environmental effects and the personal costs they impose.

Hardback (2007)

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International Perspectives on Household Wealth

Edited by Edward N. Wolff

The contributors to this comprehensive book compile and analyse the latest data available on household wealth using, as case studies, the United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and Finland during the 1990s and into the twenty-fir...

Hardback (2006)

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The Distributional Effects of Indirect Taxes

John Creedy, Cath Sleeman

This book develops a number of analytical models and presents empirical analyses of the equity and efficiency effects of existing indirect taxes from New Zealand. Potential tax reforms including environmental taxes are also examined and ...

Hardback (2006)

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Redesigning the Welfare State

Hans-Werner Sinn, Christian Holzner, Wolfgang Meister, Wolfgang Ochel, Martin Werding

Redesigning the Welfare State argues that the current high level of unemployment in Germany not only creates a major challenge for the German welfare state, but is to a good extent caused by the way the country''s welfare system is desig...

Hardback (December 2006)

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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...

Paperback (2006)

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Hardback (2003)

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The Welfare Economics of Public Policy

Richard E, Just, Darrell L. Hueth, Andrew Schmitz

This outstanding text, a follow-up to the authors’ award-winning 1982 text, provides a thorough treatment of economic welfare theory and develops a complete theoretical and empirical framework for applied project and policy evaluation. T...

Paperback (2005)

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Hardback (2005)

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The Economics of Nonprofit Enterprises

Edited by Richard Steinberg

The literature on nonprofit organizations can be said to have developed in three waves. The first wave asserted some plausible objectives for a nonprofit organization possessing monopoly power and examined the subsequent implications for...

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Work, Family and Childcare

Joris Ghysels

Work, Family and Childcare studies the joint decisions made by parents regarding the time they allocate to paid employment and childcare. Extensive cross-national data is analysed from three countries that represent the diversity of Euro...

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The Economics of Social Security in Japan

Edited by Toshiaki Tachibanaki

This book provides a comprehensive appraisal of social security in Japan, where traditionally the burden of welfare provision has been the main responsibility of the family and employers, rather than the state. However, an ageing populat...

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Poverty and Subsidiarity in Europe

Didier Fourage

This book focuses on the effects of welfare state arrangements on the dynamics of poverty in Europe. The author contends that the EU is primarily based on economic integration and as a result social policy issues have remained secondary ...

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