Since the late 1990s, new strategies concerning the role and shape of welfare states have been formulated, many of which are guided by a logic of social investm

Social investment is part of a strategy to modernize the European welfare states by focusing on human resource development throughout the life-course, while ens

The Uses of Social Investment provides the first study of the welfare state, under the new post-crisis austerity context and associated crisis management politi

This book contributes to the growing literature on social investment by discussing the way social investment ideas have been adopted in different countries and

Introduction and conclusion available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The turn towards a Social Investment approach to welfare implies deploying resources t