(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Allen Lane, ISBN-13: 9780241722244)
Our economic system is broken. The climate crisis is accelerating. Inequality is deepening. Public trust is crumbling. Wealth concentrates in fewer hands while governments scramble to fix what markets cant do, rather than to shape them from the out...Loe edasi...
What are the limits of markets? What moral responsibilities do businesses have? To what extent is individual economic success shaped by personal effort versus social factors? In Social Economies, Lester Hadsell examines these questions across twenty...Loe edasi...
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...
Risk is an ever-present feature of life in a complex world, and it is important for societies to manage it in a just and efficient manner. One way to reduce risk is to assign responsibility for the associated harm. In this book, economist Thomas J....Loe edasi...
In this open access book, Matthew Greenslade sheds some much-needed light the damage being done by the World Banks insistence on pursuing a targeted approach to social protection in lower-income countries, while also describing some of the successe...Loe edasi...
In this open access book, Matthew Greenslade sheds some much-needed light on the damage being done by the World Banks insistence on pursuing a poverty-targeted approach to social protection in lower income countries, while also describing some...Loe edasi...
This book conceptualizes and clarifies the meaning of sustainable performance, approaching it holistically from different perspectives. It focuses on challenges related to movements to transform the world economy into more modern, resource-efficient...Loe edasi...
In a world where poverty, hunger, and inequality remain pressing challenges, Financial Inclusion and Sustainable Development reveals how access to finance is more than just...Loe edasi...
This book examines a largely overlooked social movement in West Germany, notable for its significant influence on the national apprenticeship system. The mov...Loe edasi...
With the design of the pension system critically dependent on objectives and context, and many objectives and trade-offs to consider, real-world pension schemes are complex and rich in institutional detail. Ongoing demographic changes also challenge...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Nov-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198952985)
With the design of the pension system critically dependent on objectives and context, and many objectives and trade-offs to consider, real-world pension schemes are complex and rich in institutional detail. Ongoing demographic changes also challenge...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Nov-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674296138)
An economist challenges an emerging orthodoxy: the idea that the best way to alleviate poverty is simply to give people money.A simple notion has become increasingly widespread in recent years: to lift people out of poverty, just gi...Loe edasi...
Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. ...Loe edasi...
Maria Jouste, Ravi Kanbur, Jukka Pirttilä, Pia Rattenhuber
Sari: WIDER Studies in Development Economics
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Nov-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198909422)
An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.This book examines the role of social protec...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198887836)
Is it true that Global Value Chains (GVCs) boost incomes, create better jobs, and reduce poverty, as commonly claimed? In this compelling book, Selwyn, Bernhold, and Leyden show how the mainstream notion of GVCs obscures their capitalist character....Loe edasi...
This volume focuses on pace and progress in India towards achieving various targets of SDG2: ‘End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture’ and SDG3: ‘Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for...Loe edasi...
This book examines how entrepreneurial communities in Pakistan and beyond counteract social disintegration fuelled by neoliberal economic practices. It hig...Loe edasi...
This volume explores several aspects of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaums framework for thinking about individual well-being. Called the functioning and capability approach (FCA), this framework radically departs from the conventional approach to the...Loe edasi...
This book analyses existing welfare regimes across Europe, offering an exploration into how basic income principles might influence job search behaviour. D...Loe edasi...
This edited volume is an interdisciplinary approach towards examining and integrating diverse theories, methodologies, and practices of social entrepreneurship. It highlights how social enterprises with their focus on resolving societal problems and...Loe edasi...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been and continues to be one of the most important global centres for economics. With four chapters on themes in MIT economics and 38 chapters on the lives and work of MIT economists, this book shows h...Loe edasi...
This book examines the academic life of Oskar Lange and his contribution to economics. It charts the development of his ideas across his working life and reflects on how the events of this period shaped his view of economics. His early engagement...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Jun-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198958116)
Despite the focus on urbanization, suburbanization in India has received relatively less research attention. This is the first comprehensive work on this topic, exploring the dynamics, regional variations, and impacts of suburbanization using granula...Loe edasi...
Most states in the world make some provision for the welfare of their citizens. Every state engages with health care provision, almost all provide education services, and, after anexplosion of interest in recent years, a substantial majori...Loe edasi...
