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75433 - Economics of Welfare State

Academic Year 2021/2022

                
                        Docente:
                        Matteo Lippi Bruni
                    
                        Credits:
                        6
                    
                        SSD:
                        SECS-P/03
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Forli
                        
                            Corso:
                            Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
                            Management for Social Economy (cod. 8843)

                            Teaching resources on Virtuale

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

SDGs

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