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75433 - Economics of Welfare State

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  • Teacher Matteo Lippi Bruni

  • Credits 6

  • SSD SECS-P/03

  • Teaching Mode Traditional lectures

  • Language Italian

  • Campus of Forli

  • Degree Programme Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Management for Social Economy (cod. 8843)

  • Teaching resources on Virtuale

SDGs

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.

No poverty Good health and well-being Decent work and economic growth Reduced inequalities

Academic Year 2021/2022

Course contents

1.Aim and design of public policies: equity and efficiency 2.History of the Welfare State and its present role 3.The models of Welfare State 4. Pensions 5. Inequality  and Poverty 6. Household and gender policies 7. The "second" welfare and the role of social economics

Readings/Bibliography

Selected Chapters from:

Stefano Toso, Massimo Baldini, Disuguaglianza, Povertà e Politiche Pubbliche, Il Mulino, 2009.

Nicholas Barr, The Economics of the Welfare State, Oxford University Press Nicholas Barr, The Welfare State as a Piggy Bank, Oxford University Press.

Bent Greve (editor), Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State 2019 

José Antonio Ocampo, ‎Joseph E. Stiglitz – 2018 The Welfare State Revisited, Columbia University Press.

Teaching methods

Lectures and class discussions

Assessment methods

written exam

 

GRADING

Grades are expressed on a 18-30 scale and graduated as follows:

<18 failed
18-23 sufficient
24-27 good
28-30 very good
30 L excellent

Office hours

See the website of Matteo Lippi Bruni