75433 - Economics of Welfare State

Academic Year 2018/2019

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Management for Social Economy (cod. 8843)

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.

Teaching methods

Lectures and class discussions

Assessment methods

written exam

Office hours

See the website of Matteo Lippi Bruni