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  • Social Economics

    Current and Emerging Avenues

    by Joan Costa-Font, Mario Macis ...
    Series series CESifo Seminar Series
    A rich collection of current research in the growing field of social economics, covering such issues as culture, gender, ethics, and philanthropic behavior.The growing field of social economics explores how individual behavior is affected by group-level influences, extending the approach of mainstream economics to include broader social motivations and incentives. This book offers a rich and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Political Economy of Health and Healthcare

    The Rise of the Patient Citizen

    by Joan Costa-Font, Gilberto Turati, Alberto Batinti ...
    The healthcare sector is one of the fastest growing areas of social and public spending worldwide, and it is expected to increase its government shares of GDP in the near future. Truly global in its scope, this book presents a unified, structured understanding of how the design of a country's health institutions influence its healthcare activities and outcomes. Building on the 'public choice' ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Behavioural Incentive Design for Health Policy

    Steering for Health

    by Joan Costa-Font, Tony Hockley, Caroline Rudisill ...
    Behavioural economics has become a popular way of tackling a broad range of issues in public policy. By presenting a more descriptive and possibly accurate representation of human behaviour than traditional economics, Behavioural Incentive Design for Health Policy tries to make sense of decisions that follow a wider conception of welfare, influenced by social norms and narratives, pro-social ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • The Economics of New Health Technologies

    Incentives, organization, and financing

    Edited by Joan Costa-Font, Christophe Courbage, Alistair McGuire ...
    Technological change in healthcare has led to huge improvements in health services and the health status of populations. It is also pinpointed as the main driver of healthcare expenditure. Although offering remarkable benefits, changes in technology are not free and often entail significant financial, as well as physical or social risks. These need to be balanced out in the setting of government ... Read more

    $66.59 USD

  • The Economics of New Health Technologies

    Incentives, organization, and financing

    Edited by Joan Costa-Font, Christophe Courbage, Alistair McGuire ...
    Technological change in healthcare has led to huge improvements in health services and the health status of populations. It is also pinpointed as the main driver of healthcare expenditure. Although offering remarkable benefits, changes in technology are not free and often entail significant financial, as well as physical or social risks. These need to be balanced out in the setting of government ... Read more

    $66.59 USD

  • Participatory Democracy in Southern Europe

    Causes, Characteristics and Consequences

    Edited by Joan Font, Donatella Della Porta, Yves Sintomer ...
    Citizen participation is a central component of democratic governance. As participatory schemes have grown in number and gained in social legitimacy over recent years, the research community has analyzed the virtues of participatory policies from several points of view, but usually giving focus to the most successful and well-known grass-roots cases. This book examines a wider range of ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Surveying Ethnic Minorities and Immigrant Populations

    Methodological Challenges and Research Strategies

    Edited by Mónica Méndez, Joan Font ...
    Series series IMISCOE Research
    What are the special problems involved in surveying immigrant populations and ethnic minorities? How can we ensure adequate representation of these growing groups in general population surveys? This book is the first to address these challenges in a systematic way. Experiences from eight Western countries, involving more than a dozen surveys, are used to explore difficulties in designing these ... Read more

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  • Behavioural Economics and Policy for Pandemics

    Insights from Responses to COVID-19

    Edited by Joan Costa-Font, Matteo M. Galizzi ...
    Behavioural economics and behavioural public policy have been fundamental parts of governmental responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. This was not only the case at the beginning of the pandemic as governments pondered how to get people to follow restrictions, but also during delivery of the vaccination programme. Behavioural Economics and Policy for Pandemics brings together a world-class line-up of ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Reforming Long-term Care in Europe

    Edited by Joan Costa-Font ...
    Reforming Long-term Care in Europe offers the most up-to-date analysis of the features and developments of long-term care in Europe. Each chapter focuses on a key question in the policy debate in each country and offers a description and analysis of each system.Offers the very latest analysis of long-term care reform agendas in EuropeCompares countries comparatively less studied with the ... Read more

    $29.00 USD

  • Europe and the Mediterranean Economy

    Edited by Joan Costa-Font ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the European Economy
    With the creation of the Mediterranean partnership and the recent move towards the creation of the Union for the Mediterranean in 2008, a new emphasis is placed on the Mediterranean in the study of European Integration.This book brings together a collection of experts to address this important new area of study and discuss issues such as development, aid, labour, markets, human capital investment, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Measuring the Global Shadow Economy

    The Prevalence of Informal Work and Labour

    by Colin C. Williams, Friedrich Schneider ...
    This book brings together two leading researchers in the field to provide a comprehensive overview of the shadow economy from a global perspective. Reviewing the advantages and disadvantages of different ways of measuring the informal sector, the authors evaluate its size and key determinants across the world. Williams and Schneider clearly establish the persistence and prevalence of the shadow ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of International Education and Development

    Edited by Simon McGrath, Qing Gu ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This timely Handbook takes stock of the range of debates that characterise the field of international education and development, and suggests key aspects of a research agenda for the next period. It is deliberately divergent in its approach, recognising the major ideological and epistemological divides that characterise a field that draws on many traditions. Leading and emergent voices from ... Read more

    $76.99 USD