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Edward R. Morey
Deconstructing Behavior, Choice, and Well-being

Introduction.- Part I: An ordering of paths, well-being, and economics: how to make you, a chimp, or even a cactus, better off?.- Chapter 1: Economicus: assumptions of a neoclassical theory of behavior, a…

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Robert Snape
Leisure and Welfare in Britain from the Industrial Revolution to the Second World War

Tracing the evolution of social thought on leisure in Britain from the industrial revolution to the present day, this book documents an alternative and almost totally ignored discourse of leisure as a fie…

lieferbar ab 8.11.2025.

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Anke Hassel, Bruno Palier
Growth Strategies and Welfare Reforms

How have advanced capitalist democracies dealt with deindustrialization? Did financialization affect these economies to the same degree? How does digitalization transform them? How do governments deal wit…

lieferbar ab 1.1.2026.

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Tony Addison, Alan Roe
Resources Matter

This book explores a central issue of our time: our materials world is simultaneously both part of the problem (especially fossil fuels) as well as part of its solution (the materials necessary for the te…

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Alessandro Cigno, Furio C Rosati
The Economics of Child Labour

Children throughout the world are engaged in a variety of activities classifiable as work. These range from relatively harmless, even laudable, activities like helping parents in the home, to morally or p…

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Benjamin Selwyn, Christin Bernhold
Capitalist Value Chains

Is it true that Global Value Chains (GVCs) 'boost incomes, create better jobs, and reduce poverty', as commonly claimed? In this compelling book, Selwyn and Bernhold show how the mainstream notion of GVCs…

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Maria Jouste, Ravi Kanbur, Jukka Pirttilä, Pia Rattenhuber
Poor Protection

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 b…

lieferbar ab 6.2.2026.

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Ugo Gentilini
Timely Cash

This book provides a historical overview of the 2,500-year history of cash transfers to better understand the roots of contemporary debates on whether and how such assistance should be provided.

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Joseph E Stiglitz
The Origins of Inequality

This book gathers together and extends to new frontiers Joseph E. Stiglitz's lifelong work, drawing upon the challenges and insights of each of these phases of his career.

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Torben M Andersen
Pension Economics

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 detai…

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Living with Precariousness

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 …

lieferbar ab 22.1.2026.

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Antonia Karaisl von Karais
The House is in a State

The book focuses on methodology, argument and context of 18^th^ century philosopher Christian Wolff's last book, the Oeconomica. This work, a rationalist guide to household morality, is discussed in conju…

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Wendy D Chen, David B Audretsch
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Public Sector

In Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Public Sector, Wendy D. Chen and David B. Audretsch provide a framework for understanding entrepreneurial and innovative activity in the public sector. Debunking …

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Kala Seetharam Sridhar
Indian Cities or Suburbs?

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…

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Scott Fulford
The Pandemic Paradox

Why most Americans' finances improved during the worst economic contraction since the Great Depression-and the policy choices that made this possible In March 2020, economic and social life across the Un…

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David Matthews
The Class Struggle and Welfare

A fresh look on the welfare system-with a view beyond the stateWith The Class Struggle and Welfare , David Matthews argues that we must understand the welfare state as a dialectical phenomenon-a product o…

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Heath Henderson
Poor Relief

It is widely believed that distributing cash to people in poverty is the best way to help them while avoiding paternalism. Heath Henderson pushes back, arguing that a markets-know-best model is itself pat…

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Christina G Villegas
Poverty in America

"Timely and authoritative, this resource provides an accessible introduction to the issues, controversies, and debates surrounding poverty in America"--

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Laurent Bossavie, Daniel Garrote Sanchez, Mattia Makovec
The Journey Ahead

This book seeks to enhance the understanding of migration in Europe and Central Asia, and to propose policy solutions tailored to the diversity of migration experiences and challenges in the region, to be…

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Annie Lowrey
The Time Tax

A powerful investigation into how and why the government wastes our time with administrative burdens, how these burdens discriminate and drive inequality, and what we can do to protect our time---and make…

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