Economics of Social Policy

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...

Hardback (August 2021)

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Living with Pandemics

Edited by John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Aksel Ersoy, Louise Reardon

‘This book captures a very specific moment in our current lives: the rise of a formidable pandemic, one more aggressive and more global than prior pandemics. It has already killed more people than have some of our major wars. The authors...

Hardback (August 2021)

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Constraining Democratic Governance in Southern Europe

José M. Magone

‘Especially after the Great Depression of 2008 and later on with the Pandemic, Southern Europe has become an area of high interest again, as in the years of the transitions to democracy during the 1970s. Today, Southern European countrie...

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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...

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Global Youth Unemployment

Ross Fergusson, Nicola Yeates

‘Rarely has a study of global youth unemployment so adeptly combined an empirically-grounded scrutiny of its levels and trends, with a conceptually nuanced analysis of its political economy drivers at multiple scales. Fergusson and Yeate...

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The European Social Model and an Economy of Well-being

Giovanni Bertin, Marion Ellison, Giuseppe Moro

‘The authors provide the reader with the analytical tools needed to understand what has been defined as the “European social model” and to grasp some of the most pressing challenges it is undergoing, including the Covid-19 stress test.’ ...

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Poverty, Crisis and Resilience

Edited by Marie Boost, Jennifer Dagg, Jane Gray, Markus Promberger

‘The aftermath of the 2008 crisis left many communities across Europe facing serious problems, with the capacity of households to endure hardships pushed to the limit. In this exceptional volume the editors have brought together and dist...

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Global Justice, Markets and Domination

Fausto Corvino

‘Fausto Corvino’s book is an original, engaging and enjoyable read. It is also erudite and wide-ranging. By bringing the extensive literatures on domination, distributive justice, and cosmopolitanism to bear on questions of commodificati...

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Debt and Austerity

Edited by Jodi Gardner, Mia Gray, Katharina Moser

‘As problems of debt and overindebtedness loom large in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, this rich and interdisciplinary collection of essays provides timely insights into the theoretical, policy and practical issues in addressing p...

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Research Handbook on Development and the Informal Economy

Edited by Jacques Charmes

‘Jacques Charmes and Edward Elgar Publishing are to be warmly congratulated for this Handbook, which reflects on 50 years of academic discussion on the informal economy, and offers us new insights and inspiration for the next 50 years of...

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Welfare State Legitimacy in Times of Crisis and Austerity

Edited by Tijs Laenen, Bart Meuleman, Wim van Oorschot

‘The three editors unite the finest state-of-the-art research about public attitudes towards the welfare state in Europe. Drawing on the 2008 and 2016 waves of the high-quality European Social Survey, the contributors analyse how and why...

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