Welfare economics

'A brilliant exposé' - Danny Dorling

Covid-19 has exposed the limits of a neoliberal public health orthodoxy. But instead of imagining radical change, the left is stuck in a rearguard action focused on defending the NHS from the wrecking ball of privatisation.

Public health expert Christopher Thomas argues that we must emerge from Covid-19 on the offensive - with a bold, new vision for our health and care. He maps out five new frontiers for public

Die Dokumentation zieht eine Zwischenbilanz des ersten in Deutschland akkreditierten Studiengangs Sozialmanagement an der Ostfalia vor fünfzehn Jahren. Neben Beispielen zur Etablierung des weiterbildenden Fernstudiengangs wird der Diskussionsstand um das Feld Sozial- und Public Management gekennzeichnet. 

Olli Rehn is former European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Euro (2010-2014). He was the European Commissioner for Enlargement from 2004 to 2010, in charge of the accession process of prospective new member states to the European Union (EU) and stabilisation in the Western Balkans. He served as Minister of Economic Affairs (2015-2016) and is a former Member of European and Finnish Parliaments. Since July 2018, he is the Governor of the Bank of Finl

This compilation of short essays helps readers interested in economics to identify 21st century economic ideas that should be read and remembered. The authors state the

The welfare state is unfit for purpose – how can we transform it into a force for equality and social justice?

Dr. Jared A. Ball Professor of Africana and Communication Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. and host of the “iMiXWHATiLiKE!” podcast. His decades of journalism, media, writing, and political work can be found at imixwhatilike.org. Ball has also been named as one of 2022’s Marguerite Casey Foundation’s Freedom Scholars.

Chapter 1. Greed and Ignorance.- Chapter 2. What is an Economist?.- Chapter 3. The Economy and the Many Economies.- Chapter 4. Kinds of Advisers.- Chapter 5. The Scope and Methods of Economics.- Chapter 6. Excessive Inequality.- Chapter 7. Choosing an Economic Adviser.- Chapter 8. Prevailing Problems.- Chapter 9. Individual virtues, Social Benefits.- Chapter 10. The Adviser and the Government.

Simon Hannah is a writer and political activist. He is the author of A Party with Socialists in It (Pluto 2018). His work has been featured in Open Democracy and New Left Project. He is currently researching at King's College the municipal socialist movement of the 1980s. He is an active trade unionist and a member of the Labour Party.

John McDonnell is a British Labour Party politician who was appointed the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in September 2015. He became the Membe

Für ihre Forschung zur Bekämpfung der globalen Armut wurden Esther Duflo und Abhijit V. Banerjee 2019 mit dem Wir

Angesichts der Veränderung von Bedarfsstrukturen im Rahmen des demografischen Wandels in Deutschland steht die kommunale Sozialplanung vor der Herausforderung, die Versorgung im Alter sicherzustellen, ohne den Gesamtzusammenhang der Altersgruppen in der Kommune aus den Augen zu verlieren. Im vorliegenden Buch wird Altenhilfeplanung grundlagentheoretisch vorgestellt und in innovativen Modellen und Konzepten weiterentwickelt. Die Wirklichkeit einer neuorientierten Planungspraxis wird anhand von

-Thibault Laurentjoye, EHESS Paris – PSL Research University, France

Ben Tippet is an educator, activist, and writer. He is currently doing a PhD at the University of Greenwich, researching the causes of wealth inequality in the UK. He is a researcher for The Transnational Institute and has written for Novara, Strike! and Economy.

Tino Sanandaji is Researcher at the Institute for Economic and Business History Research (EHFF) at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden. He has a Kurdish background and moved from Iran to Sweden in 1989. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2011. Sanandaji has authored numerous articles and books, as well as several state reports. 

Prof. Dr. Günter Thiele (Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin); Prof. Dr. Bernhard J. Güntert (UMIT, Hall in Tirol)

Dieser Band bietet Orientierungs- und Gestaltungswissen zur Umsetzung der Sozialraumorientierung in der Sozialwirtschaft. Die Beiträge zeigen die Bedeutung das Fachkonzepts angesichts sozialer und sozialstaatlicher Entwicklungen und legen dar, wie Sozialunternehmen durch eine sozialräumliche Steuerung und Organisation Ressourcen besser mobilisieren, die Wirksamkeit und Wirtschaftlichkeit ihrer Leistungen erhöhen und gleichzeitig die Lebensverhältnisse im Gemeinwesen verbessern können. Praxisb