The Scandinavian countries – Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland – have developed a particular model of welfare, employment and economic governance. It is based on universal access to taxfinanced social services and social insurance, full employment secured by expansive macro-economic policies and active labour market policies, highly organized labour markets, corporatist interest mediation, an...

Designing efficient policies to slow global warming requires an approach that combines economic tools with relations from the natural sciences. The dynamic integrated climate-economy (DICE) model presented here, an intertemporal general-equilibrium model of economic growth and climate change, can be used to investigate alternative approaches to slowing climate change. Evaluation of five policie...

The articles in this issue examine changing poverty and changing antipoverty policies in the United States since the early 1970s. The authors consider both how economic and demographic changes have changed which individuals and families are poor, and how antipoverty programs and policies have, and have not, changed in response. Poverty rates have declined for some demographic groups and increas...

This paper presents a first empirical step in filling the gap between physical and economic models, by combining a material flow model and an applied general equilibrium (AGE) model. The goal of this paper is threefold. Firstly, a new methodology is discussed for the integration of material and economic flow models. Secondly, the new methodology is tested for its empirical applicability by simu...