""The welfare state plays a key role in people's everyday lives in developed societies. At the same time, the welfare state is contested and there are constant discussions on how and to what degree the state should intervene, influence and have an impact on the development of society. Recent...

"The first of the UN Millennium Goals was to reduce extreme poverty and it was in 2014 halved compared to 1990, and now the goal is to eradicate poverty and hunger by 2030. The reduction in poverty is to a high degree the consequence of the rapid economic development in a few countries,...

The social, political and economic future of the European welfare states / by Bent Greve -- A tale of two pensions reforms : a Sraffian view / by Sergio Cesaratto -- Is there a demographic time-bomb? / by Bent Greve -- A market imitating employment subsidy / by Ralph S. Musgrave -- Pauperising...