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A Fair Share of Tax

This book takes a taxpayer's perspective to the relations taxation creates between people and their state. Larsen proposes ...

Ages, Generations and the Social Contract

Our societies are ageing. The Family is changing. Labour force behaviour is evolving. How is the organisation of family and ...

AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City : Phase 3: Civilian Participation – Including the Global Health Deal Proposition

This volume describes phase 3 of the AiREAS multidisciplinary cocreation effort to produce a Healthy City. Phase 1 referred ...

Alternatives to Animal Testing

This book presents recent advances in the pure sciences that are of significance in the quest for alternatives to the use ...

Amartya Sens Capability Approach

Kuklys examines how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen’s approach to welfare measurement can be put in practice ...

Animal Welfare : Competing Conceptions and Their Ethical Implications

The thesis of this book is that members of what I shall call the “animal welfare science community,”3 which includes ...

Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain

This book explores the social history of the anti-vivisection movement in Britain from its nineteenth-century beginnings ...

Bearing Witness Ruth Harrison and British Farm Animal Welfare (1920–2000)

This book is the biography of one of Britain’s foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science, ...

CGE Models and Capital Income Tax Reforms : The Case of a Dual Income Tax for Germany

The book suggests a novel way how the effects of tax reforms especially in the field of capital income taxation can be measured ...

Care Poverty : When Older People’s Needs Remain Unmet

This book turns the research attention of social policy scholars and long-term care researchers from comparative descriptions ...

Child Maltreatment and the Law

Child Maltreatment and the Law is a must-read for psychologists, developmentalists, sociologists, social workers, criminologists, ...

Civilian Lunatic Asylums During the First World War A Study of Austerity on London's Fringe

This book explores the history of asylums and their civilian patients during the First World War, focusing on the effects ...

Constructing Roma Migrants : European Narratives and Local Governance

This book presents a cross-disciplinary insight and policy analysis into the effects of European legal and political frameworks ...

Contemporary Family Lifestyles in Central and Western Europe Selected Cases

This introductory chapter approaches two basic categories of the whole monography which is a family and a lifestyle. The ...

Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality

This collection offers a detailed mapping of recent Nordic literature and its different genres (fiction, poetry, and children’s ...

Cow Care in Hindu Animal Ethics

This book provides both a broad perspective and a focused examination of cow care as a subject of widespread ethical concern ...

Enabling Social Europe

The study is distinguished by a unique collaboration of social and economic policy experts coming from a wide range of disciplines: ...

From Walras to Pareto

In this thought-provoking collection, ten international scholars offer reflections and new interpretations of Walras’and ...

General Equilibrium and Welfare Economics

A good basic understanding of general equilibrium theory is a fundamental and indispensable background for advanced work ...

Governing Social Protection in the Long Term Social Policy and Employment Relations in Australia and New Zealand

This book examines the comparative evolution of social protection in Australia and New Zealand from 1890 to the present ...

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