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9780511510724
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Growing Public examines the question of whether social policies that redistribute income impose constraints on economic growth. What kept prospering nations from using taxes for social programs until the end of the nineteenth century? Why did taxes and spending then grow so much, and what are the prospects for social spending in this century? Why did North America become a leader in public education in some ways and not others? Lindert finds answers in the economic history and logic of political voice, population ageing, and income growth. Contrary to traditional beliefs, the net national costs of government social programs are virtually zero. This book not only shows that no Darwinian mechanism has punished the welfare states, but uses history to explain why this surprising result makes sense. Contrary to the intuition of many economists and the ideology of many politicians, social spending has contributed to, rather than inhibited, economic growth
Content:
v. 2. Part 5: The underlying framework -- A minimal theory of social transfers -- A guide to the tests -- Part 6: Accounting for the social spending, jobs, and growth -- Explaining the rise of mass public schooling -- Explaining the rise of social transfers, 1880-1930 -- What drove postwar social spending? -- Social transfers hardly affected growth -- Reconciling unemployment and growth in the OECD -- Appendices: A. Time series on school enrollments and teachers, 1830-1930 -- B. Conflicting data on elementary school enrollments within the United Kingdom, 1851-1931 -- C. Public and total educational expenditures as percentages of national product, since 1850 -- D. Regressions predicting schooling, growth, social transfers, and direct taxes, 1880-1930 -- E. Regressions predicting social spending, growth, and employment, OECD 1962-1995 -- F. Social transfers circa 1990 versus history -- G. Postregression accounting formulae
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521821759
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521529174
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521821759
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511510724
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