This book extends the literature on multidimensional poverty and economic deprivation by providing insights into the well-being of the US population. Written for policymakers, researchers, economists, and others studying poverty, this resource docum...Loe edasi...
Pension policy in the UK and US is designed on the assumption that people make informed financial decisions, consistently invest in pensions and manage diverse portfolios. Deviating from this is often deemed irresponsible and irrational. However,...Loe edasi...
Digital Revolution for the Vulnerable tells a grounded, sometimes uncomfortable, and ultimately hopeful story about Bangladeshs push to shift social protection from paper registers to mobile screensfrom cash to code. Instead of getting lost in jargo...Loe edasi...
This book showcases the work of Annapurna Pariwar, an NGO comprising six organizations, over the past 30 years and its impact on changing the lives of low-income working women with small businesses in the slums of Mumbai and Pune in the Indian state...Loe edasi...
Connecting labour and welfare transformations to broader political-economic processes – including land restructuring and financialisation – the book offers an unparalleled comparative perspective on two of the world’s most important manufacturing hub...Loe edasi...
This book revisits after about close to 20 years the East Asian Welfare Model when looked at from an ideal-typical perspective. Ideal-typical welfare regimes do not change, in general, quickly, they are stable, due to the higher level of observation...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive account of Condorcet domainsstructured sets of preference orders in which the pairwise majority relation remains transitive for any odd-numbered group of voters. These domains form the foundation for normatively robu...Loe edasi...
Introduces concepts in welfare economics and public economics, provides unified approaches to the evaluation of equality, depolarization, and tax progressivity. Looks at the questions of equal sacrifice in taxation, incidence of taxation on deprivat...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009650700)
Introduces concepts in welfare economics and public economics, provides unified approaches to the evaluation of equality, depolarization, and tax progressivity. Looks at the questions of equal sacrifice in taxation, incidence of taxation on deprivat...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Mar-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, ISBN-13: 9783034348430)
This collective volume investigates the multi-scalar and international manifestations of planning models, projects and policies from the mid-twentieth century onwards. The publication aims to delineate the notion of welfare planning and situate it...Loe edasi...
Sari: NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479842094)
This volume focuses on three main questions surrounding the ethics and politics of climate change. The first concerns the limits of welfare economics, and of its utilitarian logic, as arguably still the dominant policy approach to climate change,...Loe edasi...
Why hope matters as a metric of economic and social well-beingIn a society marked by extreme inequality of income and opportunity, why should economists care about how people feel? The truth is that feelings of well-being are critic...Loe edasi...
This book captures the research and best practices of organizational responsibility towards employment generation and well-being issues, as well as ways to explore sustainable and responsible business solutions to address the current uncertain times...Loe edasi...
This book presents a theory of choice grounded in two distinct processes. The first is a long-term evolutionary process that links survival-enhancing behaviors with positive emotional responses, forming primary preferences. These preferences are i...Loe edasi...
Precariousness has become a defining experience in contemporary society, as an inescapable condition and state of being. Living with Precariousness presents a spectrum of timely case studies that explore precarious existences – at individual,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jan-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Institute of Economic Affairs, ISBN-13: 9780255368513)
The book presents a powerful and controversial argument: that ever more tax and spend might not actually lead to higher social welfare. ...Loe edasi...
This volume is a collection of 14 conference papers discussing Indias development story around the three themes of sustainable development goals (SDGs), agricultural productivity and sustainability, and climate change - mitigation and adaptation. T...Loe edasi...
This book bridges a fundamental aspect of human behavior, empathy, with a critical area of social science, economics. It introduces readers to the concept of empathy and situates it within broad economic thought, from strategic decision-making in...Loe edasi...
