Economics and Social Policy (Book).

book review: understanding social policy

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What Can Economics Contribute to Social Policy?'

When it has been decided that universal access to a good is to be provided, governments in some cases provide it directly, as with public education and old-age benefits almost everywhere and health benefits in many countries. In other cases, governments mandate that employers provide benefits to workers or that persons obtain benefits directly themselves. Requirements that employers keep workpl...

Energy Economics and Policy

Copyright © 2013 Zhan-Ming Chen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. There are emerging concerns worldwide on management of energy resources and its development, such as control of the environmental impact of ene...

Book Review: Health Economics and Policy Challenges in Global Emerging Markets

Agroforestry Economics and Policy

Essentially every living thing on Earth has applied the basic concepts of economics. That is, every living thing has had to use a limited set of resources to meet a minimum set of needs or wants. Although the study of economics is often confused with the study of markets or finance, economics is simply a social science that studies the choices people make. As a social science, economics is the ...