Format:
Online-Ressource (IX, 254 S.)
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Ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9786612501999
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1282501992
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9781282501997
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9780191573729
Content:
This book explores the role of the welfare state in the overall wealth and wellbeing of nations and in particular looks at the American welfare state in comparison with other developed nations in Europe and elsewhere.It is widely believed that the welfare state undermines productivity and economic growth, that the United States has an unusually small welfare state, and that it is, and always has been, a welfare state laggard. This book shows that all rich nations, including the United States, have large welfare states because the socialized programs that comprise the welfare state-public educa
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-238) and index
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Title from e-book title screen (viewed May 25, 2010)
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1. Introduction2. Why All Rich Nations Have Large Welfare States -- 3. The Size, Nature, and Universality of Welfare State Transfers -- 4. How Welfare State Programs Redistribute Income, Reduce Poverty and Inequality, Build and Sustain Human Capital, and Promote Opportunity -- 5. A Short American-centric History of Welfare State Programs and Outcomes -- 6. Explaining American Exceptionalism: Laggard in Public Relief and Social Insurance, Leader in Education -- 7. Explaining US Divergence in the Last Quarter of the Twentieth Century: The Long Swing Right -- 8. The Future of the American Welfare State.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 019957930X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0199579318
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0199579318
Additional Edition:
ISBN 019957930X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199579303
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199579310
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199579310
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199579303
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Wealth and Welfare States : Is America a Laggard or Leader?
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=480640
Author information:
Rainwater, Lee 1928-
Author information:
Smeeding, Timothy M. 1948-
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