Is there a pensions crisis? Issues surrounding pensions, in both private and public sectors, raise major policy questions about economic performance and social stability. The pensions sector has been experiencing problems for many years, but we believe it is open to question whether these amount...

This year's annual LGA finance conference will focus on future public spending and the implications for local government. The conference will hear from the Local Government Association as well as from a panel of leading local authority representatives discussing what this will mean for councils.

The theme of this meeting will be “Household responses to exogenous shocks and policy options: Lessons from crisis episodes” and will prioritize papers on the following (nonexclusive) related topics: - Crisis impacts on poverty, vulnerability, human capital accumulation or well-being -...

Abstracts are welcome on theoretical, empirical and applied housing research but are particularly welcomed from a sociological or social sciences perspective (broadly and not in any way exhaustive: geography, political science, public policy, social policy, economics, finance, management &...

RC19’s annual conference brings together leading international scholars in the field of comparative welfare state studies covering all parts of the globe and encompassing a wide range of disciplines including sociology, social policy and political science.

There will be two tracks, the first focussing on economic theory particularly social choice, decision/utility theory, experimental work and economic theory in philosophy. The second track will cover particularly subfields where human welfare is particularly important including health,...

In economics, “relativity” is the idea that it is position relative to others that motivates behavior and determines individual and therefore social wellbeing. This idea has distinguished pedigree, going back in modern times to Duesenberry’s relative income hypothesis, and even further...