The economy of Esteem

an essay on civil and political society

The text contends that people care about others' opinions of them and that the actions they take to raise the esteem they enjoy produce social patterns. They also point out that the actions taken to raise esteem affect individual economic behaviour.

Las redes de la corrupción

la sociedad civil contra los abusos de poder

La cultura de las rentas básicas

historia de un concepto

Evolución contemporánea del gasto público en España

Welfare economics

towards a more complete analysis

Yew Kwang Ng looks to make welfare economics more complete by discussing the recent inframarginal analysis of division of labour and by pushing welfare economics from the level of preference to that of happiness, making a reformulation of the foundation of public policy necessary. A ...

Restoring fiscal sanity

how to balance the budget

America will face persistent, annual deficits of over half a trillion dollars over the next decade. If current policies continue, these deficits will slow economic growth, reduce household incomes, and impose enormous burdens on the next generation. To address the problem, a team of Brookings ...

Exclusión social y estado del bienestar

Exclusión social y estado de bienestar.- Tendencias en la desigualdad de la renta.- Las políticas redistributivas.- La pobreza: problemas conceptuales y de medición.- Factores explicativos de la pobreza.- principales tendencias de la pobreza.- Las políticas contra la pobreza: conceptos básicos.- Las políticas contra la pobreza ...

Economics of health care financing

the visible hand

La renta básica de ciudadanía

una propuesta clave para la renovación del estado del bienestar

Rethinking pension reform

Social Security, demographics, and risk

Economía, política e idiomas

intercambio lingüístico y sus efectos sobre la eficiencia y la distribución

Pension design and structure

new lessons from behavioral finance

Saving social security

a balanced approach

While everyone agrees that Social Security is a vital and necessary government program, there have been widely divergent plans for reforming it. Peter A. Diamond and Peter R. Orszag, two of the nation#s foremost economists, propose a reform plan that would rescue the program ...

When all else fails

government as the ultimate risk manager

Inequality and the State

Economía social y género

Conflict and cooperation

institutional and behavioral economics

Allan Schmid#s innovative text, Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics, investigates "the rules of the game," how institutions--both formal and informal--affect these rules, and how these rules are changed to serve competing interests. This text addresses both formal and informal institutions and the ...

Developing an annuity market in Europe

On the premise that pension provision in Europe will dramatically change over the next few decades, this book concentrates on the funded component of pension wealth, and specifically on annuities # financial products that, on the basis of actuarial equivalence, allow the conversion of wealth into ...

Welfare state change

towards a Third Way?

Contents/contributors Part 1: Policy Contexts and Concepts 1 Rebecca Surender: Modern Challenges to the Welfare State and the Antecedents of the Third Way 2 Stuart White: Welfare Philosophy and the Third Way 3 Giuliano Bonoli and Martin Powell: One Third Way or Several? Part ...