Wealth and welfare states: is America a laggard or leader?
Garfinkel, Irwin
Rainwater, Lee
Smeeding, Timothy
This book explores the role 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. INDICE: 1: Introduction; 2: 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 Last Quarter of 20th Century: The Long Swing Right; 8: The Future of the American Welfare State
- ISBN: 978-0-19-957931-0
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 28/01/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés