Christian Aspalteris the author of over 25 books in Social Policy, Health Policy, and Economics. He is one of the global leading theorists in social policy and a leading comparative Health and Social Policy scholar. He is the author of Ten Worlds of Welfare Capitalism: A Global Data Analysis (2023, Springer) and Super Inequality: Theoretical Essays in Economics and Social Policy (2023, Springer), plus the editor of Covid-19 Pandemic: Problems Arising in Health and Social Policy (2023, Springer), The Routledge International Handbook to Welfare State Systems: Towards Global Social Policy Science (2023), Financing Welfare State Systems in Asia (2021), Ideal Types in Comparative Social Policy (2020), and co-editor of Health Care Systems in Developing Countries in Asia (2017), Development and Social Policy: The Win-Win Strategies of Developmental Social Policy (2017), Active Aging in Asia (2015), Social Work in East Asia (2014), and Health Care Systems in Europe and Asia (2012).