Can the welfare state survive?
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Word Count
31,250 words, Guess
Page Count
125 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780745698731
- ISBN-139780745698748
- ISBN-100745698735
- ISBN-100745698743
- Library of Congress Control Number2015035196
and 5 more
- OCLC Control Number929586301
- Better World Books9780745698748
- Better World Books9780745698731
- Better World BooksW8-BVG-783
- Open LibraryOL30400065M
Classifications
- DDC361.6/5
- LCCJC479 .G36 2016
- LCCHB846
Description
"After the most serious economic crash since the 1930s and the slowest recovery on record, austerity rules. Spending on the welfare state did not cause the crisis, but deep cuts in welfare budgets has become the default policy response. The welfare state is seen as a burden on wealth creation which can no longer be afforded in an ever more competitive global economy. There are calls for it to be dismantled altogether. In this incisive book, leading political economist Andrew Gamble explains why western societies still need generous inclusive welfare states for all their citizens, and are rich enough to provide them. Welfare states can survive, he argues, but only if there is the political will to reform them and to fund them"--
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