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1	Inequality Reexamined more books like this by Professor Amartya K Sen add to wishlist This book brings together and develops some of the most important economic, social, and ethical ideas Sen has explored over the last two decades. It examines the claims of equality in social arrangements, stressing that we should be concerned with people's capabilities rather than either their resources or their welfare. Sen also looks at some ... see all copies from $9.47! new only from $15.51! \| SVS
2	Public Economics more books like this by Gareth Myles add to wishlist This textbook provides a thorough treatment of all the central topics in public economics. Aimed at senior undergraduate and graduate students, it will also be invaluable to professional economists and to those teaching in the field. The book is entirely self-contained, giving all the equilibrium theory and welfare economics needed to understand ... see all copies from $21.98! new only from $57.40! \| SVS
3	Good Society: The Humane Agenda more books like this by John Kenneth Galbraith add to wishlist This work presents a blueprint for society that is compassionate to the less fortunate and economically feasible for all. Galbraith outlines what he believes are necessary goals for society and discusses how these goals can best be achieved. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.15! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Public Choice III more books like this by Dennis C Mueller add to wishlist This book represents a considerable revision and expansion of Public Choice II (1989). Six new chapters have been added, and several chapters from the previous edition have been extensively revised. The discussion of empirical work in public choice has been greatly expanded. As in the previous editions, all of the major topics of public choice are ... see all copies from $40.77! new only from $40.77! \| SVS
5	The three worlds of welfare capitalism more books like this by Gøsta Esping-Andersen add to wishlist Few discussions in modern social science have occupied as much attention as the changing nature of welfare states in western societies. Gdegreesta Esping-Andersen, one of the most distinguished contributors to current debates on this issue, here provides a new analysis of the character and role of welfare states in the functioning of contemporary ... see all copies from $16.71! new only from $29.00! \| SVS
6	On Economic Inequality more books like this by Professor Amartya K Sen add to wishlist First published in 1973, this book presents a systematic treatment of the conceptual framework as well as the practical problems of measurement of inequality. Alternative approaches are evaluated in terms of their philosophical assumptions, economic content, and statistical requirements. In a new introduction, Amartya Sen, jointly with James ... see all copies from $15.17! new only from $29.44! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Intermediate Public Economics more books like this by Jean Hindriks, Gareth D Myles add to wishlist This is a comprehensive and accessible text that covers the core topics of public economics, as well as recent developments in political economy, information, games, multiple jurisdictions, and intertemporal issues. Public economics studies how government taxing and spending activities affect the economy - economic efficiency and the distribution ... see all copies from $35.95! new only from $49.75! \| SVS
8	Capitalism, Democracy, and Welfare more books like this by Torben Iversen add to wishlist This book builds on new institutionalist theory in both economics and political science to offer a general political economy framework for the study of welfare capitalism. Based on the key idea that social protection in a modern economy, both inside and outside the state, can be understood as protection of specific investments in human capital, ... see all copies from $20.14! new only from $20.14!
9	Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism more books like this by Alexander Hicks add to wishlist What has brought about the widespread public provision of welfare and income security within free-market liberalism? Some social scientists have regarded welfare as a preindustrial atavism; others, as a functional requirement of industrial society. Most recently, scholars have stressed the reformist actions of center-left parties during the ... see all copies from $7.95! new only from $18.40! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays more books like this by Hilary Putnam add to wishlist Although it is on occasion important and useful to distinguish between factual claims and value judgments, the distinction becomes, Hilary Putnam argues, positively harmful when identified with a dichotomy between the objective and the purely "subjective." Lively, concise, and wise, his book prepares the way for a renewed mutual fruition of ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $21.57! \| SVS
11 view cover	The Economics of the Welfare State more books like this by N. A. Barr add to wishlist conomics of the Welfare State discusses the different parts of the welfare system,in particular, cash benefits, the health service and education. The text argues that the welfare state exists not just to help the underprivileged, but also for efficiency reasons in areas where private markets would be inefficient or would not exist at all. The ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $64.95!
12 view cover	Economics of welfare more books like this by Arthur Pigou add to wishlist The fourth edition of this text which established welfare economics as a field of study. It covers such topics as the relationship between the national dividend and economic and total welfare, and links the size of the dividend to the allocation of resources. see all copies from $8.00! new only from $58.91! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Capability Approach: Concepts, Measures and Applications more books like this by Flavio Comim (Editor), Mozaffar Qizilbash (Editor), Sabina Alkire (Editor) add to wishlist The capability approach developed by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen has become an important new paradigm in thinking about development. However, despite its theoretical and philosophical attractiveness, it has been less easy to measure or to translate into policy. This volume addresses these issues in the context of poverty and justice. Part I offers ... see all copies from $114.75! new only from $114.75! \| SVS
14 view cover	The Stakeholder Society more books like this by Bruce A Ackerman, Professor Anne Alstott add to wishlist The authors propose leveling the playing field by giving each citizen a stake in society through a one-time payment of $80,000. The money could be spent or invested by choice, and would be repayable later in life. They weigh pros and cons and anticipate reasonable objections, which they answer. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.94! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Resources, Values, and Development: Expanded Edition more books like this by Professor Amartya K Sen add to wishlist Containing many of the author's contributions to development economics, this book includes papers on resource allocation in non-wage systems, investment planning, shadow pricing, employment policy, and welfare economics, this text examines development economics in detail. see all copies from $14.82! new only from $38.00! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Welfare, incentives, and taxation more books like this by James A Mirrlees add to wishlist Nobel Prize-winning economist James Mirrlees is one of the world's leading figures in welfare, development, and public sector economics. This volume brings together for the first time twenty-three of his seminal papers on welfare economics, tax theory, public expenditure, contract theory, growth theory, and development economics. Academic and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Commodities and Capabilities more books like this by Professor Amartya K Sen add to wishlist This volume presents a set of inter-related theses concerning the foundations of welfare economics, and in particular about the assessment of personal well-being and advantage. The argument presented focuses on the capability to function, such as what a person can do or can be, questioning in the process the more standard emphasis on opulence or ... see all copies from $22.95! new only from $22.95!
18	Applied Welfare Economics and Public Policy more books like this by Richard E Just add to wishlist see all copies from $104.99! new only from $320.37!
19 view cover	Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory more books like this by A M Feldman add to wishlist Welfare economics, and social choice theory, are disciplines that blend economics, ethics, political science, and mathematics. "Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory, Second Edition", includes models of economic exchange and production, uncertainty, optimality, public goods, social improvement criteria, life and death choices, majority voting ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $76.00! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Choosing the Right Pond: Human Behavior and the Quest for Status more books like this by Robert H Frank add to wishlist Is it better to be a big frog in a small pond or a small frog in a big pond? In this lively and original book, the author argues persuasively that people's concerns about status permeate and profoundly alter a broad range of human behaviour. He takes issue with his fellow economists for too often neglecting fundamental elements in human nature in ... see all copies from $11.20! new only from $25.83! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen: Volume I: Ethics, Welfare, and Measurement more books like this by Kaushik Basu (Editor), Ravi Kanbur (Editor) add to wishlist Amartya Sen has made deep and lasting contributions to the academic disciplines of economics, philosophy, and the social sciences more broadly. He has engaged in policy dialogue and public debate, advancing the cause of a human development focused policy agenda, and a tolerant and democratic polity. This argumentative Indian has made the case for ... see all copies from $82.81! new only from $91.88!
22 view cover	Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the Eighteenth Century more books like this by Peter H Lindert add to wishlist Growing Public examines the question of whether social policies that redistribute income impose constraints on economic growth. Taxes and transfers have been debated for centuries, but only now can we get a clear view of the whole evolution of social spending. What kept prospering nations from using taxes for social programs until the end of the ... see all copies from $16.79! new only from $26.05! \| SVS
23 view cover	The Cooperative Nature of the Firm more books like this by Tatsuro Ichiishi add to wishlist This book is an analysis of the modern economy's two major resource allocation mechanisms. The price mechanism has been subject to extensive examination by neoclassical economists, but there has been relatively little attention paid to the impact of the organization of firms on allocation. Professor Ichiishi presents a distinctive theory of the ... see all copies from $34.66! new only from $41.75! \| SVS
24 view cover	Taxation, Incomplete Markets, and Social Security more books like this by Peter A Diamond add to wishlist In this book Peter Diamond analyzes social security as a particular example of optimal taxation theory. Assuming a world of incomplete markets and asymmetric information, he uses a variety of simple models to illuminate the economic forces that bear on specific social security policy issues. The focus is on the degree of progressivity desirable in ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $6.00! \| SVS
25 view cover	The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State more books like this by Thomas Janoski (Editor), Peter Lange (Editor), Robert H Bates (Editor) add to wishlist Comparative research is exploding with alternative methodological and theoretical approaches. In this book, experts in each one of these methods provide a comprehensive explanation and application of time-series, pooled, event history and Boolean methods to substantive problems of the welfare state. Each section of the book focuses on a different ... see all copies from $13.99! new only from $36.22! \| SVS

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