Welfare economics books

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Revisiting Targeting in Social Assistance: A New Look at Old Dilemmas

Revisiting Targeting in Social Assistance: A New Look...

Author: Margaret Grosh ,  Phillippe Leite
ISBN: 9781464818141
Format: Paperback
$192.72

Targeting is a commonly used but much debated policy within global social assistance practice. This book examines...  Read More >>

Sustainable Development Goals for Society Vol. 1: Selected topics of global relevance

Sustainable Development Goals for Society Vol. 1: Selected...

Author: Godwell Nhamo ,  Muchaiteyi Togo
ISBN: 9783030709501
Format: Paperback
$336.35

Written by 43 authors from Africa, Europe and Latin America, this book presents 19 topics addressing poverty in...  Read More >>

Agricultural Policy, Agribusiness, and Rent-Seeking Behaviour, Third Edition

Agricultural Policy, Agribusiness, and Rent-Seeking...

Author: Andrew Schmitz ,  Charles Moss
ISBN: 9781487522803
Format: Paperback
$170.00

This book sheds light on the interaction between international agricultural trade and domestic foreign policy.  Read More >>

Home in the World: A Memoir

Home in the World: A Memoir

Author: Amartya Sen, FBA
ISBN: 9780241955369
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world's leading public intellectuals Where is 'home'?...  Read More >>

Pandemic Preparedness and Response Strategies: COVID-19 Lessons from the Republic of Korea, Thailand, and Viet Nam

Pandemic Preparedness and Response Strategies: COVID-19...

Author: Patrick L. Osewe
ISBN: 9789292690748
Format: Paperback
$54.21

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Individualising Risk: Paid Care Work in the New Gig Economy

Individualising Risk: Paid Care Work in the New Gig...

Author: Fiona Macdonald
ISBN: 9789813363687
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book investigates how paid care work and employment are being transformed by policies of social care individualisation...  Read More >>

Financing Prosperity by Dealing with Debt

Financing Prosperity by Dealing with Debt

Author: Christopher Harker ,  Amy Horton
ISBN: 9781800081888
Format: Paperback
$51.75

In an era when many of us depend on debt to survive but struggle with its consequences, Financing Prosperity by...  Read More >>

Financing Prosperity by Dealing with Debt

Financing Prosperity by Dealing with Debt

Author: Christopher Harker ,  Amy Horton
ISBN: 9781800081895
Format: Hardback
$103.50

In an era when many of us depend on debt to survive but struggle with its consequences, Financing Prosperity by...  Read More >>

Free Lunch Thinking: 8 Economic Myths and Why Politicians Fall for Them

Free Lunch Thinking: 8 Economic Myths and Why Politicians...

Author: Tom Bergin
ISBN: 9781847942753
Format: Paperback
$24.99

And by tracing the development of key economic tenets, he demonstrates how their champions' tendency to believe...  Read More >>

#Housing2030: effective policies for affordable housing in the UNECE region

#Housing2030: effective policies for affordable housing...

Author: United Nations: Economic Commission for Europe
ISBN: 9789211172676
Format: Paperback
$105.60

Explores housing affordability challenges and existing policy instruments for improving housing affordability in...  Read More >>

The Political Economy of Indo-European Polytheism: How to Deal with Too Many Gods

The Political Economy of Indo-European Polytheism: How...

Author: Mario Ferrero
ISBN: 9783030979423
Format: Hardback
$194.04

Presenting case studies on the transformation and demise of various polytheistic religions, it highlights the pivotal...  Read More >>

Advances in Longitudinal Data Methods in Applied Economic Research: 2020 International Conference on Applied Economics (ICOAE)

Advances in Longitudinal Data Methods in Applied Economic...

Author: Nicholas Tsounis ,  Aspasia Vlachvei
ISBN: 9783030639723
Format: Paperback
$569.22

Featuring selected papers from the 2020 the International Conference on Applied Economics (ICOAE 2020) held virtually...  Read More >>

On Inequality and Freedom

On Inequality and Freedom

Author: Lawrence M. Eppard (PhD, PhD, Shippensburg University) ,  Henry A. Giroux (PhD, PhD, McMaster University)
ISBN: 9780197583029
Format: Hardback
$67.25

When Americans conceptualize freedom, they often disproportionately focus on negative freedom, or freedom from government...  Read More >>

Sociophysics Approach to Epidemics

Sociophysics Approach to Epidemics

Author: Jun Tanimoto
ISBN: 9789813364837
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book presents the fundamentals of evolutionary game theory and applies them to the analysis of epidemics, which...  Read More >>

Global Migration, Gender, and Health Professional Credentials: Transnational Value Transfers and Losses

Global Migration, Gender, and Health Professional Credentials:...

Author: Margaret Walton-Roberts
ISBN: 9781487523732
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This edited collection explores how the value of training and skills invested in internationally educated health...  Read More >>

Global Migration, Gender, and Health Professional Credentials: Transnational Value Transfers and Losses

Global Migration, Gender, and Health Professional Credentials:...

Author: Margaret Walton-Roberts
ISBN: 9781487505202
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This edited collection explores how the value of training and skills invested in internationally educated health...  Read More >>

Introduction to Cost–Benefit Analysis: Looking for Reasonable Shortcuts

Introduction to Cost–Benefit Analysis: Looking for Reasonable...

Author: Ginés de Rus
ISBN: 9781803924618
Format: Paperback
$85.50

Introduction to Cost–Benefit Analysis is intended as a graduate and advanced undergraduate textbook. Nevertheless,...  Read More >>

Cost-Benefit Analysis and Dementia: New Interventions

Cost-Benefit Analysis and Dementia: New Interventions...

Author: Robert J. Brent
ISBN: 9781839105753
Format: Hardback
$194.06

This ground-breaking book expertly brings together the many effective...  Read More >>

Granting Justice: Cash, Care, and the Child Support Grant

Granting Justice: Cash, Care, and the Child Support...

Author: Tessa Hochfeld ,  Leila Patel
ISBN: 9780796926203
Format: Paperback
$90.43

Takes issue with the characterisation of the South African state as ‘developmental’. The crucial aspect of care...  Read More >>

Is Basic Income Within Reach?: Building the Case Amidst Progress and Poverty

Is Basic Income Within Reach?: Building the Case Amidst...

Author: Wayne Simpson
ISBN: 9783030660871
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book examines the evolution of basic income policy and research in advanced economies and is divided into two...  Read More >>

The Renegotiations of Public Private Partnerships in Transportation: Theory and Practice

The Renegotiations of Public Private Partnerships in...

Author: Carlos Oliveira Cruz ,  Joaquim Miranda Sarmento
ISBN: 9783030612603
Format: Paperback
$310.47

This book provides a theoretical basis for understanding the phenomenon of renegotiations in Public Private Partnerships...  Read More >>

Rudolf Hilferding: What Do We Still Have to Learn from His Legacy?

Rudolf Hilferding: What Do We Still Have to Learn from...

Author: Judith Dellheim ,  Frieder Otto Wolf
ISBN: 9783030473464
Format: Paperback
$310.47

In doing so, this book highlights the importance of Hilferding's work in analysing and understanding modern capitalism...  Read More >>

The $Ten Trillion Dream: The State of the Indian Economy and the Policy Reforms Agenda

The $Ten Trillion Dream: The State of the Indian Economy...

Author: Subhash Chandra Garg
ISBN: 9780670095711
Format: Hardback
$130.68

India rightly aspires to be an upper middle-income economy with its vast workforce gainfully employed to have a...  Read More >>

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