Welfare Economics

The Constitution of Liberty is considered Hayek's classic statement on the ideals of freedom and liberty, ideals that he believes have guided - and must continue to guide - the growth of Western civilization. Here, Hayek defends the principles of a free society, casting a skeptical eye on the growth of the welfare state and examining the challenges to freedom posed by an ever-expanding government.

At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet. Maid is an emotionally raw, masterful account of Stephanie's years spent in service to upper-middle-class America as a "nameless ghost" who quietly shared in her clients' triumphs, tragedies, and deepest secrets.

Aquí tiene una metodología seria y directa para armar un presupuesto fuerte que usted puede seguir y soportar. Las historias de éxito hablan solas en este libro del maestro del dinero Dave Ramsey. En lugar de prometer la dosis normal de remedios rápidos, Ramsey ofrece un método atrevido y sensato para los asuntos de dinero, proveyendo no sólo la manera sino también la esperanza arraigada que eleva el espíritu para salir de las deudas y alcanzar la salud financiera total.

The growing movement for universal basic income (UBI) has been gaining attention from politics and the media with the audacious idea of a regular, unconditional cash grant for everyone as a right of citizenship. This volume in the Essential Knowledge series presents the first short, solid UBI introduction that is neither academic nor polemic. It takes a position in favor of UBI, but its primary goal remains the provision of essential knowledge by answering the fundamental questions about it: What is UBI? How does it work? What are the arguments for and against it? What is the evidence?

In an expose of the 2008 financial meltdown from the inside, Ziad K. Abdelnour argues that the political and financial elites have done nothing to fix the structural problems. By creating more market bubbles, they are actually waging a war on the most productive members of society. Abdelnour offers several solutions, including understanding that the government's primary objective is to create an environment conducive to the creation of wealth, not job creation, and not providing lifetime support to those who choose not to take advantage of the innumerable opportunities....

Like all of us, though few so visibly, Alan Greenspan was forced by the financial crisis of 2008 to question some fundamental assumptions about risk management and economic forecasting. No one with any meaningful role in economic decision making in the world saw beforehand the storm for what it was. How had our models so utterly failed us? To answer this question, Alan Greenspan embarked on a rigorous and far-reaching multiyear examination of how Homo economicus predicts the economic future, and how it can predict it better.

This audiobook examines the history of ideas regarding welfare economics, and in particular the American welfare state.

Who benefits from Universal Basic Income - and who pays for it? Learn everything you need to know about UBI in this short book!

Un bimbo che oggi nasce in Congo, o una bambina che nascerà in Europa tra vent'anni, hanno il diritto di porre domande sul nostro modello di sviluppo e sui nostri stili di vita, perché le nostre scelte di oggi stanno già modificando la loro vita, a volte in meglio ma altre in peggio. "L'economia civile", di cui il audiolibro illustra genesi e campi di applicazione, cerca risposte non fuori dall'economia di mercato ma all'insegna di un mercato diverso.

Did you know that subsidized goods often cost us more than we'd pay for them in the free market? In fact, we sometimes pay for goods that will never exist at all. It turns out that the free market in America is anything but. How did a system designed to safeguard American farmers turn into the nation's biggest scam?Most of us don't know what subsidies are and don't think they affect us directly, so we tune out. But they have an enormous impact on all of us.